HAVANA — The first U.S. cruise ship in nearly 40 years was crossing the Florida Straits from Miami to Havana on Monday, restarting commercial travel on waters that once represented a half-century of Cold War hostility.
The 704-passenger Adonia was to finish its nearly 17-hour journey at 9:30 a.m. EST, becoming the first U.S. cruise ship to dock in Havana since President Jimmy Carter…
Blah blah blah.
The infuriating part of this bullshit article is calling the MV Adonia a ‘U.S. cruise ship’ as she was built in France, flagged in several countries and crewed from many more.
[QUOTE=DeckApe;183961]Blah blah blah.
The infuriating part of this bullshit article is calling the MV Adonia a ‘U.S. cruise ship’ as she was built in France, flagged in several countries and crewed from many more.[/QUOTE]
At least she is owned and operated by US companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Adonia
Fathom Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom_(cruise_line)
How is any of this shit helping the Cubans? It’s not like they can hop on a cruise ship and head to Miami.
I liken the whole thing to visiting animals in a zoo.
Cubans are still sneaking out of the country on rafts and even coming up the Central American route, ending up trapped in camps in Costa Rica which has closed its borders.
[QUOTE=catherder;183988]How is any of this shit helping the Cubans? It’s not like they can hop on a cruise ship and head to Miami.[/QUOTE]
It will infuse money into the economy of Havana.
[QUOTE=catherder;183988]I liken the whole thing to visiting animals in a zoo.[/QUOTE]
So like all western turisme to poorer countries?
The idea is strictly profit for the shareholders of large corporations who will do business there, cruise ship companies included.
[QUOTE=z-drive;183996]The idea is strictly profit for the shareholders of large corporations who will do business there, cruise ship companies included.[/QUOTE]
Carnival calls it " Cruising With a Conscience".They have been running these cruises to the Dominican Republic for some time and are now expanding to Cuba.
“This Cruise is meant for people who are seeking to travel and have a positive effect on the area, said Tara Russell, the president of Fathom”.
“This is for those people who have always been engaged philanthropically but want to be involved physically, but they don’t know where to start.” Fathom has been building “what we know is genuinely, authentically impactful,” Ms. Russell said of the itinerary offered to travelers aboard the line’s ship. Activities include visiting a local school and helping students learn English, visiting a chocolate factory owned and run by 30 local women and visiting a typical local home on the countryside among others.
Fathom is focusing on three areas: education, and economic and environmental aid.
In other words; This is so people can travel to “less fortunate” countries without feeling guilty of exploiting the natives. At the same time they can feel that they are doing good for humanity.
Even if it is only a token effort for a few hours, they can show off their videos and tell tales about how they suffered hardship for the poor people, secretly hoping that they never shows up in “my back yard”.
Carnival will not be alone offering cruises direct from US ports to Cuba for very long:
Norwegian Cruise Line says it is in negotiations with Cuban authorities and hopes to begin cruises from the U.S. to Cuba this year.
Cruise traffic is key to the Cuban government’s reengineering of the industrial Port of Havana as a tourist attraction. After decades of treating the more than 500-year-old bay as a receptacle for industrial waste, the government is moving container traffic to the Port of Mariel west of the city, tearing out abandoned buildings and slowly renovating decrepit warehouses as breweries and museums connected by waterfront promenades.
Cruise dockings will be limited by the port’s single cruise terminal, which can handle two ships at a time.
What Havana Bay was before it became a “Bay” more than 500 years ago is not clear.
"Even if it is only a token effort for a few hours, they can show off their videos and tell tales about how they suffered hardship for the poor people, secretly hoping that they never shows up in “my back yard”
Wrong. We have open borders, many of these folks want the third world to move into our back yard. They are simply giving in to an obsession with sticking their noses in other peoples’ business in order to convince them they should follow our example and live just like us as we sink into a sewer of morally bankrupt greed and incompetence.
It’s a cover. They are really just after all those cars from the fifties.