Posted 12/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
I've been everywhere in the Caribbean but I always swore I would never go to Cuba. Not because Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia and the whole annoying Cuban expat community in Miami tell me not to. They've already turned a vibrant, gentlemanly city like Miami into a bitter Hispanic hole. Shut up and sing.
I just don't like the romantic bullshite about Fidel and his trusty photogenic psycopathic sidekick Robin...err, I mean Che. "But it's cheap!", Canadians scream. So's Steelback beer and I'm never drinking it. And Steelback has killed and imprisoned fewer people.
And my friends who anxiously await every trip to Varardero and Cayo Coco so they can bring pillowcases filled with aspirins and crayons and nylons. Are you going on holiday or a Worldvision mission?
And that other demographic cramming the charter flights for a trip to the splinter in America's index finger: greybearded teachers and CBC ...
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