re: Cuba embargo to be lifted

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Plenty of people, particularly from the Northeast go and vacation in Puerto Rico. I've gone and vacationed in Puerto Rico this year.

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Meh - PR draws about 4 million, give or take. Dominican Republic gets almost 5 million. Just Miami Beach in Florida draws 14 million and change. Cuba is sitting under 3 million, right now.

So, I predict it will surge by 2 million or so for a couple of years (newness) - people will invest a little money (if Cuba even allows it) and then people will realize it is a shitty Stalinist run country stuck in 1958 (and not in a good way), and go back to their nicer Caribbean locations.

There is a reason why people go to DR (and they are kicking arse in tourism, right now) and not Haiti - I mean it is the same island, after all. The main difference is that DR has a stable government and political system, and makes efforts to provide a safe and enticing tourist destination. Haiti is a corrupt, dangerous, 3rd world shithole and, apparently, they like it that way.