Why is Cuba so popular with the left?

Cool beaches, cheap sex . . .

the best jazz in the world !!!

castro's 'marxism' (i would never call it that though, castro's regime has little to do with what marx wrote about) is not the only cause of cuba's economic downfall.

the best jazz in the world !!!
friendly people !
you can walk around at night without worrying about being held up.
first-class hotels at reasonable prices.

Good cigars!

boomerang beat me to it - i'm not a smoker, but i understand cigar smokers still prefer a "cubana".
plenty of united states citzens come to canada to buy cuban cigars here. some toronto cigar stores have set up humidors for their u.s. clients , so they can store their cigars here - i'm sure none are ever taking them across the border back to the u.s. ???
hbg

I don't smoke cigars either but the people I know who do drool over Cubans.

When you drive over from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, and take Huron Church Road, about every other store front is either a strip joint or is advertising Cuban cigars . . . i once had a Canadian mocking me because he can visit Cuba, but i can't . . . i let him have his fun--i could have pointed out that i can indeed visit Cuba if i wish, and i can tell the U.S. State Department to piss off if they harrass me about it. I could also have pointed out that i won't even go to Florida because i don't like hot climates . . . but why bother, he was havin' fun . . .

i understand that u.s. citizens can go to cuba on "cultural" group visits - a u.s. travel magazine recently had an article on how to arrange it.
i wonder if wanting to smoke cuban cigars qualifies as a "cultural" visit ?
btw quite a few of the u.s. citizens keeping their own humidors in toronto cigar shops are film stars coming to toronto on business, i.e. making films in toronto.
when we were in toronto in the spring, we noticed dozens of new york taxis(the old style checker cabs) lined up on one of the downtown streets ... upon inquiring why so many taxis had come from new york to toronto, one of the taxi drivers had a good look at me and explained that they keep a stable of checker cabs in storage and slap on a label depending on the u.s. city being "fake filmed" - never too old to learn . hbg

Too bad I don't smoke, but I must have a look at those stores in TO, anyone know where they are?

I want to go to Cuba. I read an article written by a Maxim editor who went there. Sold me.

Beautiful women, and if you're a middle class American, you'll be absolutely rich over there. I wanna live like a pimp for a few days, dammit.

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goodfielder : here is one of the many toronto stores selling cuban cigars...YIT'Z CUBAN CIGARS...
some stores also do mail-order business.
smoke 'em, if you got 'em ! hbg

Thanks hbg - I'll drop in there for a corned beef sandwich but give the cigars a miss

If yer in TO and you wanna great sammich, you gotta go down to the St. Lawrence Market of a Sattiday morning an' have one of their pea-meal bacon sammiches . . . man, oh man, the next best thing to a meatloaf sammich . . .

Hey, Schwarzenegger loves cigars.

Is that in the market on the north side of Front Set? The one on the corner that closes up on the Saturday afternoon? Or the one on the south side that's open all the time and which has a really nice diner? Sounds good - I need to know

One of the cheaper tourism centers from Europe, but everybody who has been there will tell: it's really a good place for holidays.

The one on the south side--and it's downstairs, one of the deli stands down there at the south end of the downstairs . . . then, just as you pass the stairs into the north end, there's a huge candy counter, at which one of the local high-quality chocolatiers sells their wares--be prepared, if you're a chocolate addict, and have a couple of hundred Canajun on ya . . .

South side, upstairs, west wall <not the diner> - those ARE the verra verra best peameal bacon sandwiches.

There's one interesting cigar place down at Harbourfront.

Definitely let the Tranna crowd know if you're coming back to town, goodfielder. We can show ya a good time