Originally Posted by
oneant
I've heard it's an amazing place to see, mainly because the US hasn't yet ruined it. No Starbucks on the corner. No McDonalds. No Chilis. No KFC. None of the same crap you see in every foreign place you go.
Edit:
From the State Department. I have to think that the below is a bit over the top. See if you can count the parallels between the Cuban gov't and the US gov't, especially if you replace the Cuban citizens below with US citizens, and the Americans with middle-eastern citizens. Interesting.
Post sounds a bit anti-American.
Other countries can ban Starbucks if they want to.
Have you been to India? No Starbucks or McDonalds on every corner. Even a big city like Chennai has block after block of local businesses with no Starbucks. That is not to say they don't have any McDonald's, just not that many.
Want unspoilt? Go to Namibia. A travel reporter went to a small village where people said that they never heard of a place called the United States!
The State Department's description exactly matches East Germany. It doesn't take much imagination to think that the Cuban government is similar to the East German government.
There are so many places to go that Cuba is far, far down the list. There are plenty of warm islands. There are plenty of dictatorships. The only reason that I can see of going to Cuba is either if I had relatives there or had some particular interest in something Cuban, like the architecture or 1950's cars, etc.
Comparing Cuba to the US is rubbish. The US can be improved but is nothing like Cuba. In Cuba, there are restrictions, either formal or informal, on internet and cell phone use. Carry a political sign and get arrested. Even authoritative places, like Libya and Venezuela, are not as repressive as Cuba.