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Old 11-05-2019, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by mikemalloy View Post
I visited Cuba last year. Our guide was boasting about their free health care. Considering we were told to bring Kleenex with us because many Cuban bathrooms don't have toilet paper I didn't think that they had much to boast about. If a Cuban owns a car, it's because he had relatives in the US send him enough money to buy it. There once beautiful neighborhoods are now overgrown and in disrepair. But, they don't have to pay for health care. It's amazing Americans aren't trying to relocate there.
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This might be zapped for being off topic, but FWIW: We did a cruise that visited Havana before those trips were stopped. I have been to many poor Caribbean islands but Cuba was the most depressing place I have ever visited. Very sad.

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