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In reply to the discussion: Two Cuban women's players missing at tournament [View all]bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)84. Has it changed?
When in Spain and Portugal, I only had to have my visa renewed every six months.
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If they let their citizens work where ever they wished they would have no more workers.
former9thward
Jan 2012
#5
I tried to leave the US, but was threatened with arrest when I started packing. nt
Snake Alchemist
Jan 2012
#15
I was in a group based in Havana, which cut down on the number of up close
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#40
Funny the entire team didn't defect. thousands of Cubans come here every year under
nanabugg
Jan 2012
#88
Feel free to cite a dictatorship that enjoys the same or greater levels of freedom and liberty...
PavePusher
Jan 2012
#67
seems if they were allowed to play, they would send back some of their earnings
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#14
It appears you don't know people come and go from Cuba continually. You should research sometime.
Judi Lynn
Jan 2012
#30
No, but the U.S. and Cuba have worked out an agreement for orderly immigration,
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#35
Why would a socialist paradise need to restrict the number of people who can leave?
Dreamer Tatum
Jan 2012
#42
It's the U.S. limiting the number who can come IN, not Cuba restricting the number who can leave
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#44
Americans used to be able to travel to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean w/o a passport
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#77
Since 1999, all the European Union countries except Britain and Ireland
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#130
I wonder, iverglass, how many of the people who slam Cuba, have actually been there
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#79
I grew up in contact with Latvian emigres--they were AFRAID to go back to Latvia
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#34
Cuba is not a good place to be rich, but a friend of mine who has visited and even
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#65
Why can't they be a true social democracy like Sweden? Sweden is not massacring entire villages.
hack89
Jan 2012
#66
Sweden and the other social democracies STARTED with a higher standard of living
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#68
well, when and how will we know when the Cubans want change? Castro already annointed
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#90
Wouldn't regular free multi-party elections be the best way to gauge when they want a change?
hack89
Jan 2012
#118
I didn't say that it precluded social democracy, only that Scandinavia had advantages in this
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#91
I condemn all police states, "allies" or not. They are anathema to fundamental human rights.
hack89
Jan 2012
#137
How often do visitors to the U.S. visit political prisoners in the U.S. ?
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#146
I would think a church group would be actively supporting Christian values where ever they went
hack89
Jan 2012
#147
So political repression is OK as long as it is "mild"? What do you think OWS thinks about that idea?
hack89
Jan 2012
#144
How do they articulate their choice to be free? Through free elections? Oh wait ...
hack89
Jan 2012
#148
back to the OP, those two women apparently aren't impressed by Cuba's "progress"
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#111
people go to live in developing countries all the time. many expats in latin america
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#136
Yes, but when I was considering expatriating during the Bush administration
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#140
Decree 217 is not just used to limit it to Havana. It's arbitrarily implemented.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#114
good post. one note, the ID card (cedula) is widespread throughout latin america
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#115