Cuba Stuff on Radio Tomorrow Morn..
Tomorrow at 11.am Eastern time I'll be "discussing" Cuban matters on San Fransisco's KSFO:
"Discussion" will be cool, calm, dispassionate, almost like an NPR host.....(RIGHT!!)
"Juanes" might come up--- but since 99.9999999 per cent of Americans who live over 4 1/18th millimeters outside the Dade county line have never heard of him, it's not guaranteed.
Actually, he probably has fans, among our "hispanic brothers and sisters" in California but probably not among KSFO radio hosts.
might be fun........
I would appreciate any comments on this matter. Please read article below. Is there anything being done about the Cuban families who have fled Cuba and have proof of ownership of property in Cuba?
Cuba is in the throes of another revolution - now foreign buyers are welcome
By Graham Norwood
Last updated at 8:00 AM on 19th June 2009
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Change is coming to Cuba - and this means private holiday homes on sale to foreign buyers for the first time in 50 years.
Fidel Castro, the island's communist leader since 1959, has taken a back seat through ill health and his reforming brother Raul is now in charge.
Mobile phones, once taboo, are on sale. Personal computers and plasma TVs, previously hard to find, are openly on sale. A few western brands, such as Benetton, have small stores in the capital, Havana.
On the waterfront: Havana’s impressive five-mile seafront
The 848 new holiday homes at the Carbonera Club, an ocean-front development at the beautiful and unspoilt resort of Varadero, provide another example of how this huge island is slowly changing.
Building starts later this year and Carbonera's properties - designed by British, Spanish and Italian architects giving a modern twist to the colonial style that characterises houses on the island - will skirt the coastline on a 170-hectare site.
Some homes will be designed by Conran & Partners, clustered around private pools with terraces and courtyard gardens. Others will be on the waterside, looking across the Florida Straits.
There will be a yacht club - buyers can bring their own or hire club vessels - plus a five-star hotel, but the leisure centrepiece will be a golf club and driving range.
Visitors to Cuba can join the Carbonera Club for £615, allowing them to use the restaurant and leisure facilities. Any member can buy an apartment or villa.
'The club system allows us to have more users and therefore more facilities, including those who go on to buy,' says Christopher Lawton, sales director of the Spanish-based developer Esencia, which is building the scheme in a joint venture with the Cuban government.
Prices start from £920 a square metre (through Savills, 020 7016 3814, savills.com) .
British, Spanish and Canadian buyers are likely to dominate, until the ban on travel between Cuba and the U.S. ends.
'The Obama and Castro administrations are making peace overtures to each other,' says David Vaughan, of Savills.
'Just imagine how much busier Cuba will become when the American tourist trade arrives. This makes Carbonera a remarkable investment opportunity as well as a location on one of the world's most beautiful islands.'
Celebrities are already lining up for a share of the action, with the actor Jude Law and ballerina Darcey Bussell joining the club.
They are among the two million foreigners who visited Cuba last year, a figure that is predicted to double within a decade.
What they find is o ne of the Caribbean's most attractive destinations. Havana's large old town has pastel-coloured properties dating from the early 19th century, which have been renovated recently.
There is a five-mile promenade and far fewer of the brutalist communist-era towers than in emerging holiday markets in Eastern Europe.
Outside Havana, Cuba is even more beautiful. The one-hour drive to Carbonera is on good roads dividing lush countryside and the clear blue sea, with spectacular beaches along the way.
Temperatures are high - 20C in winter and 30C in summer. U.S. politicians have visited Havana for talks and President Obama says the U.S. ban on most travel and trade has failed to bring democracy to the island, prompting speculation that relations are thawing.
Greater international trade would provide an injection of cash. Cuba's roads, airports and railways need modernisation, and more shops, clubs and sports facilities are required for tourists and buyers who want more than just the beach.
But they look likely to arrive in the near future, escalated by schemes such as the Carbonera Club.
So light that cigar and pour out a glass of rum - Cuba is back.
Humberto, most people here in California probably don't even know about the situation with Juanes. Maybe a Spanish-speaking person who knows Juanes will listen to the show tomorrow, and pass it along to friends.
Humberto,
I will tune in.
I recently moved out to the Bay Area from Metairie.
Boy what a culture shock.
It didn't take me long to find KSFO..
I enjoy your posts and your Books!
Keep up the fight!
Thanks
"Juanes" might come up--- but since 99.9999999 per cent of Americans who live over 4 1/18th millimeters outside the Dade county line have never heard of him, it's not guaranteed.
LOL.
I bet you 95.999999 percent of Americans inside Dade County never heard of Juanes before all this, either.
Thanks for the note, amigo! But hell, 'writing articles and books and chatting on TV and radio really ain't much of a "fight."
Now Antunez, Biscet, etc.--THAT'S 'FIGHTIN!!!!!!!
Not to mention the Brigadistas, Escambray Rebels and Plantados!
Conyooooooo! Now THOSE are FIGHTERS!!!
Amigo Roberto,
not to take anything away from this fellow's commercial success, please 'unnerstan! I applaud ALL commercial success (except Sol Melia's, Sherrit Int. and a very few others)
This slimy little weasel's , Juanes', hypocricy (even by celebrity standards)is what nauseates me.
Humberto, I'm thrilled you will be on KSFO!!! I listen to it all the time when I'm "on the other side", in the Bay Area. Conservatives are a rare breed in that part of the country, but they certainly stand strong. I pray you will have ample time to get it all out. Although, it's really quite a feat to fully explain 50 years of atrocities, but you will have an appreciative audience on KSFO.
Oh, yeah, the Juanes thing....like talking about another planet. If, and I say IF in the likelihood that there are any "Lah-tee-noes" listening, they would probably be less interested in any Cuban affairs than your plain vanilla American folks!....Well, that's jes my lil' ole opinion no-how.
I've lived in 5 Latin American countries for more than 40 years, studied engineering in Colombia in my youth, and was marry to a Bogotana for 23 years. All of this since my folks and yours truly left Mi Isla Adorada 49 years, 7 months and 20 days ago to this date, and arrived, exiled, to a very challenging (to say the least!) and different Miami in 1961. Never gone back to Cuba, nor will I until what has to happen happens, hopefully before I "estire la pata"...
Living among them for so many years, I think I know these guys a little bit (meaning Latinamericans in general). This slimy little weasel, like Fontova adeptly has labeled him, is nothing more than your typical garden variety (numbering in the millions!) Latinamerican Red/Redish DNA infected, neurodeficient, feces-brain, gringo-hating but dollar-loving, piece of turd. A classical by-product of Latin America's love-hate, or should I say, hate-hate relationship with anything that is America and Americans. Why is this so? Too long to analyze here but it seems that MEDIOCRITY always pairs up with resentment and envy. Resentment and envy of the Greatest Nation history has ever known: The United States of America. I wonder why they try to sneak in droves in here?...
The slimy little weasel just can't help it. His red chromosomes, in direct conflict with his pockets-full-of-greenbacks, just irresistibly compels him to "stick-it-to-the-gringos & gusanos", or so he believes, not realizing that the occupant of the White House (for only the next 4 years I hope), if left to His Incommensurable O'Greatness, would surely love to be frooont roooow and center cheering him in La Habana... Hey, asshole, it's not the "gringos", or us the "Cuban right-wing nut jobs" you're pissing off you Juanes twirp. Do you know who are you really pissing off and faltandole el respeto grandisimo degenerado? I'll tell you who, all of our brothers and sisters rotting in the Hyena's mazmorras.
May I suggest a change in venues for your so called Peace Concert. Why don't you go on a "tour", a REAL Peace Tour, and sing a-la-Johnny Cash in Cuban prisons, and by doing so expose and denounce to the world the infrahuman conditions and torture that our paisanos have been suffering for decades (some of them for more years than the left's Iconic Prisoner For The Ages, Nelson Mandela? I know why you can't and you won't: first of all you can't because Hyena Sr. and Hyena Jr. wouldn't let you; and second you won't because your Latin American Red DNA would generate so many antibodies singing to our Plantados that you would go into shock. Malparido! (typical Colombian epithet, so appropriate for this hypocrite).
I can't have any hatred for such a diminished little human being. Just a profound sense of pity, loathing and revolt. What am I going to do about it? Not much I can. Delete all his lame music from my iPod, certainly not buy any more, and write, write and write in every forum available, including El Tiempo de Bogota, to stick-it-back to them! You should read the byzantine defense they are waging for him there against us "Cuban right-wing wacko fanatics" from Miami... Oh, how I love to create havoc writing (trolling actually!) in El Tiempo's blogs against the slimy little weasel... All Babalu bloggers should do the same. It would drive them nuts!
Enough for the rant. I just had to let some of the steam out. On a side note, I love Babalu, feel myself among good, intelligent and discerning people. I'll be coming back frequently, if Val can bear my rants!
Right on Abelardo,
As you said, Latin America is full of these dollar loving American hating pinkos.
No wonder most of Latin America is in the sad shape that it is today as a result of having so many of these imbeciles in it's population.
Alley,
Thanks for the note. And yes, KSFO is good about this stuff...plenty Che t-shirts in their midst. They usually invite me about once a month to "discuss" my books & "articles"...so their regular audience has been force-fed the Cuban tragedy for a coupla years now...the basics anyway. We don't always "discuss" Cuba however.
So how did it go?
Is there a web link for us to listen to your appearance?
Amigo,
I was on from 8-8;30 AM. their time.
http://www.ksfo560.com/Article.asp?id=534876