At the home of Fidel, the father of the revolution.. My trip to Cuba

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22. 04. 2006 Santa Maria del Mar (Cuba)
After endless lines and controls, we finally set foot outside the airport ... That's Cuba! Just as we read, we had seen in documentaries or heard it from people who are or have been known!
Machines '50s style John F. Kennedy, Cadillac, and experienced enormous. Beautiful mulatto girls everywhere the inevitable smile on his face, satisfied with nothing and live right! The life I want Charles!
During the transfer from the airport to our hotel, we began to enjoy this paradise, workers uncertain waiting buses that never passed decades ago, another car on the edge of time starde (perennially in need of repair) ...
Santa Maria del Mar is one big highway, even enlightened and that reminded me so much Phan Thiet, Vietnam. We walk and walk until she meets a boy: "Amigo, whence a disco estas?" And he, with make believe, tells us to wait and shows two girls aged 14 up! We look a little surprised-shocked, disgusted and go away ... Luckily we were ... Here more than anywhere else I've seen with my eyes sad thing to say: "sex tourism". How many people of a certain age, all married in their home countries and here posing as young bachelors! At the reception everyone had taken strictly single rooms ... I do just disgusting and I think: "I'll never be like that!"
On the streets know a bunch of girls and spend some time to joke and laugh with them close to our hotel. We have explained that there shall be excluded for the Cuban, to be seen with tourists, could even stop immediately! Fidel does not want! About that strange to see huge billboards along the streets praising the revolution, Che Guevara or against Bush.
Mirta know Barbara and made me understand many things, there really is easy to have sex with a girl, sex takes on a different meaning, is a philosophy of life, if you offer something to them, they feel compelled to make something and what if their body? (Only thing they have and that is welcome?) Maybe I am not able to make good what I mean But sex is not taboo here.
When Barbara is gone I wanted to write his phone number ... "her" so to speak because it is the home number of his close ... relive the '50s Italian here ...
The local currency is the "Cuban convertible peso" and the "peso" and the first is only used by tourists ... the second from the premises and is worth about 1 / 24 of the first ... Speaking with one of vigilante hotel told us that theirs is one of the better paid trades: $ 20 per month ...
23. 04. 2006 Santa Maria del Mar (Cuba)
Wake up at dawn (thanks to jet lag!) And by the sea all day! Charles jumped, rolled on the sand, ran everywhere, like a dog just released!
This is the beach of the Cubans, we "tourists" we fly "white" in every sense! Then today is Sunday: "Not if trabaha ...!" are all here!
[Charlie]: ... and to think that Cuba is in Italy ... What you doing? Here is the paradise on earth, people have a smile on my lips! Even if you do not have the technology that has "attacked" and "slaughtered" high powered cars, luxury clothes etc.. Luxury living! I love everything about these places: the sun, sea, smiles, fruit, character, endless days, music, dance, women, satire, rum, fraternity, scioglievolezza in a speech (without taboo), how to deal with problems ... always with a smile ... and the poor! We are poor.
In the evening we decide to go dancing but at 18.30 we lie a little on the bed for a nap, after no sleep for days ... shame that we wake up after 12 hours ...
24. 04. 2006 Havana (Cuba)
I still sounds strange to say, "I had a ride to Havana!"
Meanwhile He's expanded the group, you are two nice additions Roman: Ilaria and Martha and two Milanese Matte: Leonard and Sarah.
What a sight those alleys so full of people, sounds, smells, colonial houses witnesses of a past glory, the posters of the regime of Fidel, who remembered, style "brainwashing" that he must always support socialism and its ideas ! Then, however, see the degradation and poor health conditions and life in general and you wonder: "But this socialism or communism or how you define it is really for the people?" Do not you know give you an answer or perhaps in your heart, you know but said they want to hear from those who truly lives and ask the taxi driver, the bartender, the parking lot: "But still, as the government of Fidel? " And they, with an expression mixed between the suspicious and the diplomat will respond in unison: "I do not know, I know more!" And I wonder, as we feel that taxi driver whose monthly income varies between 15 and 18 euros to take our 15 euros for one way from downtown hotel! Since his salary will not change later this month, the rest will go to the "Gobierno". And yesterday at the bar, tired of the continuing revolutionary thoughts of Charlie, I did talk to the barman ... talking about their sad situation (earning 10 euros per month) was almost beginning to cry and Charlie did not open his mouth more, nor have I heard more grumbling or murmuring polemically as recently ago.
The "communism" is good "philosophy of life, important principles and courtly but absolutely not applicable ... I really think that Fidel's death will change everything, there will be a pro-Western government and pro-American then abolish the embargo and perhaps even flourish this island again ... the smile off certainly did not tell anyone ever!
In our tour we visited the Plaza de la Revolution "which was also celebrated Mass when the Pope was in Cuba and may contain up to one million people. Classic works communist! With a huge Che Guevara who reminds us: "Hasta la victoria siempre!"
In the evening we were in a disco: "La casa de la musica." There I am ashamed to be Italian. I've never seen so many "pigs" and over 50 year-old, Italian and excited all together without dignity! We saw that in this club strolled among girls who have had the age of their daughters who were waiting for them in Italy and all bright after a while came out of the room holding hands or hugging, like pigeons with these poor girls, of course after have agreed with their slimy "protectors", often friends or relatives.
Charles and Jeff have just entered stopping to chat with two very pretty girls and have been specified: "We do not pay ...!" Have not even finished saying that the girls had already gone looking for other ... chickens! But the last straw occurred just minutes later when I entered a bunch of other girls, my brother approached them and looks at him and says, "Without money, nothing!" He was already a rumor?!?
[Charlie]: I am sitting on the terrace with a glass of rum and a cigar (I look like Che Guevara); daily breath, talk to the locals, observe and think many things, maybe too much!