Viva Cuba---good news---

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Viva Cuba---good news---

Professor iNelson informed me thru email that casinos will land on Cuba "soon".

He wrote: "...Cuba will have casinos within the next 10 years. Or, more accurately, Cuba will again have casinos. Because during the 1950s the island nation, less than 100 miles from Florida, was one of the leading gaming and tourist destinations of the world. It started in the 1920s, when Havana assumed a role later taken by Las Vegas: a vacation spot where Americans could party in ways not allowed at home. But it was not the gambling as much as it was the booze. America was in the midst of the disastrous experiment known as Prohibition, which also created modern organized crime. Cuba flourished with nightclubs, bordellos and casinos..."

Perhaps Cuban casinos will open up "instantly" if both Castro Brothers pass away accidentally :grin:. Viva Cuba!

 

[Pro21]

I don't know how INelson would know this but I hope you re right. More casinos are always a good thing.

BTW - Do you mean I. Nelson Rose?

 

[shadroch]

In 1989, I went looking for financing to open a mega-niteclub in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The most common reason I heard for investors shying away was that in the near future, Cuba would be THE tourist destination of the Caribe and the local market would't have the money to support the type of club I wanted to open.
Like it or not, there is a very large population in Cuba that still embraces communism and I think it's more than likely there will be a civil war in Cuba if Castros succesors try to change too much too fast.

 

[zengrifter]

Report: Cuban human rights ‘worse under Raul’

19/11/09 19:08 CET

A damning new report says the repression of human rights in Cuba has worsened since Raul Castro took over from his brother Fidel in 2006. The claims come from the New York-based organisation Human Rights Watch.

A Cuban protest group called Ladies in White, who all have husbands, brothers or sons in jail, supports the criticism. “We, the Ladies in White, say things are worse since Raul Castro came to power,” said Laura Pollan Toledo. “There was repression before, but things are far worse now.”

MORE- http://www.euronews.net/2009/11/19/report-cuban-human-rights-worse-under-raul/

 

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Red Cubans' casinos

I don't know how INelson would know this but I hope you re right. More casinos are always a good thing.

How does Professor iNelson know? Hmm--- I don't know. Perhaps Brothers Castros hire him as a consultant to revitalize the once-defunct casinos in Havana BTW, the Red Chinese get profitable casinos; why not the Red Cubans?

BTW - Do you mean I. Nelson Rose?

Affirmative.

 

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In 1989, I went looking for financing to open a mega-niteclub in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The most common reason I heard for investors shying away was that in the near future, Cuba would be THE tourist destination of the Caribe and the local market would't have the money to support the type of club I wanted to open.
Like it or not, there is a very large population in Cuba that still embraces communism and I think it's more than likely there will be a civil war in Cuba if Castros succesors try to change too much too fast.

As I'm sure you know, tourism has been a major industry in Cuba for a long time and many hotels cater to tourists. Europeans and Canadians flock there. It's just Americans that don't have the freedom to go. Yes casinos were a sign of the old gov't, run by the mafia and centers of prostitution, and some of the population still remember those days. But I don't think opening a few casinos under local control, or even owned by European hotels would cause any unrest. Like the Bahamas, I would expect them to be for tourists only.

 

[shadroch]

I don't think the casinos themselves will cause the violence, I think they will be victims of it.
The way I see it, when the Castros are gone, there will be a multi-way power struggle between the true believers( who'll control much of the army and police force), the Cuban reformers, the Right wing Cuban Exiles, the Sicilian/French Mafia and perhaps the S.A. Drug Cartels.
Having read about the war in Canada between the French mobs and the Hells Angels over the drug trade, I doubt they'll take a backseat to anyone when it comes to the much larger tourism pie. Cuba could represent a huge new market for the SA drug lords. Crime syndicates from all over willl be looking for disenfranchised Military Officers looking to move their hardware.
What do you think the Mexican Cartels would give for a little air support?
Just my thoughts.