Miami Says It Allows a Trickle of Tourism to Cuba?

    Today is Valentines Day, February 14th-2024 in both Miami and nearby Havana. Today, incredibly, the Miami Herald suggests that the rich and powerful Little Havana Cubans in Miami want to ease the U.S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba enough to allow a trickle of tourism to some of Cuba's many tourist spots. As shown above, tourist-obsessed Miami is home and headquarters to the world's top cruise lines, even the one named Norwegian Cruise Line. But also, as you can see above, the cruise ships leaving Miami make sure to bypass Cuba on their way to any or all of the other top tourist spots in other nations.

    Today in Cuba -- on Valentine's Day, February 14th-2024 -- Cubans, as shown above, are thinking about Jose Marti poems such as "A Day of Lovc and Friendship." 

    I am not sure what Cubans are thinking about "Miami firms" exporting things to Cuba!! An amazing headline from the Miami Herald and Nora Gamez Torres in mid-February of 2024!! W0W!! The U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba HAS EXISTED SINCE 1962,  largely driven by Miami's Cubans, and it has been designed to starve Cuba of tourist money, export/import money, etc. -- and in the past five years the Embargo/Blockade, largely because of Miami's Cubans, has been strengenthened since both the Trump and Biden administrations have put Cuba on the drastic Sponsors of Terrorism List. So, yes, the headline shown above is surprising...and hard to believe.

     In this new year of 2024 the vulnerable island-nation of Cuba is massively battling the newly strengthened U. S Embargo, which began over six decades ago in 1962 and, in the past five years, has been tightened by both the Trump & Biden administrationss. The Embargo's blocking of normal tourism to Cuba blunts the island's massive tourist lures, which include some of the World's Best Beaches, including Varadero that has been rated & voted as the World's Best Beach." Located on Cuba's northern coast just a few miles from the ultra-rich tourist mecca of Florida, how many tourists would fly to Varadero instead of Florida if there was not a U. S. Embargo that blocks most tourists from going to Cuba????

    For sure, the island nation of Cuba has some of the most positive tourism lures in the world -- including some of the best Beaches in the world, historic spots in cities such as Havana and Santiago de Cuba, friendly and welcoming people, etc., etc...not to mention some of the world's best Hiking, Snorkeling, and Biking trials.

      Cuba also indeed has a large fleet of modern Japanese buses that are ready to take tourists to the most favorite sites in both urban and rural areas around the island.

    The two international Hotel & Resort Giants based in Spain -- Melia and Iberostar -- have a total of 53 4-star and 5-star Hotels and Resorts around Cuba...and, incredibly, they are still building more. Above is the new Cadena Melia Hotel that now is being built in the beautiful and historic colonial city of Trinidad.

    Above are two photos of the 5-star Varadero Hotel & Resort operated by both Spanish and Cuban workers. Despite the tight screws against tourism by the U. S. Embargo/Blockade, both Iberostar and Melia -- the two Spanish world-renowned Hotels & Resorts giants -- remain extremely bullish on tourism to Cuba.

       This Casey Strong photo shows a typical scene tourists might see in Cuba if the U. S. permitted normal tourism to Cuba. This little Cuban girl is smiling cutely at Casey's tourist-friendly camera as her mother feeds pigeons.

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