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2003-08-20 Latin America
3 Cuban Athletes Defect at Pan Am Games
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Posted by Steve White 2003-08-20 12:16:57 AM|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Calling Speilberg, calling Steven Spielberg. Why would priviliedged and pampered world-class atheletes want to leave the island paradise of El Jeffe? Mebbe when you were fellating Fidel you failed to notice the entire place is a Potemkin village?

Calling all Canadian tourists. May you catch a vertitable cornucopia of VDs as you prop up this fascist's regime with your vacation money. Can you really justify cheap holidays with the suffering they prolong?
Posted by Craig  2003-8-20 8:25:42 AM||   2003-8-20 8:25:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The sanctions on Cuba will go down in history as an even bigger failure than communism was. I don't know what you're so afraid of, Kennedy is dead for pete's sakes.
Posted by Raphael 2003-8-20 8:36:45 AM||   2003-8-20 8:36:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 JFK is dead but Castro ain't! Go ahead and enjoy your cheap bannana rum daquiri, just keep your eyes averted from the dissident prison camps and shantytowns.
Posted by Craig  2003-8-20 9:48:56 AM||   2003-8-20 9:48:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Where else can Canadians find cheap whores so easily?

You know, at least back in the Fifties, the brothels were interspersed with casinos and the occasional actual legitimate business...
Posted by Mitch H.  2003-8-20 9:58:43 AM||   2003-8-20 9:58:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Just look at that guy run!...Hey, isn't he supposed to stop now?..."
Posted by mojo  2003-8-20 10:54:42 AM||   2003-8-20 10:54:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Extra broth for the team members who remain.
Posted by Lucky 2003-8-20 12:37:14 PM||   2003-8-20 12:37:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 (enable sarcasm mode)

I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would defect from a country with universal health care and universal literacy.

(disable sarcasm mode)
Posted by Mike  2003-8-20 12:49:15 PM||   2003-8-20 12:49:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Because you can get authentic Cambell's soup with real peices of chicken. Hm Hm good.
Posted by Lucky 2003-8-20 1:06:00 PM||   2003-8-20 1:06:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "Go ahead and enjoy your cheap bannana rum daquiri"
And you can enjoy those expensive cigars. As for vacationing in Cuba, if I knew I wouldn't be forever hassled at the American border, I'd probably go.
Posted by Raphael 2003-8-20 5:19:37 PM||   2003-8-20 5:19:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 " And you can enjoy those expensive cigars. As for vacationing in Cuba, if I knew I wouldn't be forever hassled at the American border, I'd probably go.

Hell, go. Rent a charter boat in Keys and just drop in. The immigration folks in Mariel won't bother you with visas.... they want the tourist bucks. Good fun... but go in the winter.
Posted by Shipman 2003-8-20 5:59:14 PM||   2003-8-20 5:59:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Sure. But I value my relationship with the US far more than a Cuban vacation :) Like a true Canadian, I do want to retire in Florida one day. Or Arizona.
Posted by Raphael 2003-8-20 6:12:04 PM||   2003-8-20 6:12:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Even if I smoked cigars, I would gladly pay more not to support a fascist dictator. Why don't you just stay in Canada, Raphael? Or do you enjoy being a two-faced wanker?
Posted by Craig  2003-8-20 8:34:30 PM||   2003-8-20 8:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Here is one Canadian that will not be caught dead or alive anywhere near Cuba. Cheap vacations in a prison?
Posted by john  2003-8-20 9:20:53 PM||   2003-8-20 9:20:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Or do you enjoy being a two-faced wanker?

Not as much as you must enjoy being a dick.
Posted by Raphael 2003-8-20 10:38:20 PM||   2003-8-20 10:38:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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