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Quote by: jose The rich tourists whose luxury yachts once crowded the idyllic Marina Hemingway complex on the outskirts of the Cuban capital are shocked to find all Havana's hotel rooms fully booked until mid-2006. More than a dozen hotels have been temporarily closed to tourists to make way for a different kind of visitor. Most of them arrive nearly blind; but all will be able to see perfectly before they leave.
A remarkable humanitarian programme is under way here, which aims to restore the sight of six million people through free eye surgery. Launched in July by the 79-year-old Cuban President, Fidel Castro, and Venezuela's Socialist leader, President Hugo Chavez, Operation Miracle has brought daily planeloads of the poor from across Latin America and the Caribbean to Havana for surgery. Cuba provides the medical skills, Venezuela the petro-dollars.
People suffering from cataracts and other eye conditions that can be quickly remedied are candidates.
Cuba's comprehensive, free healthcare system has a ratio of one doctor for every 170 Cubans http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...icle333837.ece
should Americans be allowed to travel to Cuba if they have eye problems?
currently the US Gov. does not allow its citizens to visit cuba |
Fidel, and Cuba, get a bad rap from every US angle I have ever seen. Que lastima. Since Kennedy and the Cuban Missle Crisis, of which I remember the stark fear of being on the brink of nuclear war, the US can't get past the success of Cuba. One doesn't know the fear of impending nuclear war, and its threatened annihilation, unless they lived through that one. It is high time to let it go, but not forget.
All trade and travel barriers should be lifted and relations normalized with Cuba immediately. It is a national shame it has gone on this long.