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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] This is probably a bit more what "we" will see landing at MUHA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=569XxfDSgSo The arrival landing announcement by the Attendant could have been just as easily "have a pleasant stay in Columbus or wherever your final destination may be". To continue, this one begs the question "Sure we are in Cuba?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLlzvKOVk3U As our discussion moves forth with this landmark event occurring during 2014, let us consider a few reports I have seen in the several newspapers I read (in print sitting in my Ekornes Stressless easy chair). 1) At present, the US, trade embargo notwithstanding, is the fourth largest exporter to Cuba. China, Spain, Brazil in that order exceed the US. 2) American Airlines, the dominant US carrier in the Caribbean, operates 20 some flights to Cuba each week. Moral: Cuba is not as closed as some might think; it is not North Korea. There was an anecdote I was recently exposed to; one of the technologists at my ophthalmologist's office is a twentysomething Latina (a 9.75 if I may say). I asked her where she was from? "Cuba , Mr. Norman". Getting ready to hear a story of drifting across the Strait of Florida on a raft, I asked how she got here? "On a plane with my family". "First we took one to Mexico City, then another to Chicago". While certainly a significant event this year, it's not Nixon reaching the détente with China. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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