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United States, Cuba to resume scheduled commercial airline service
The United States and Cuba have agreed to restore scheduled commercial airline service between the two countries for the first time in more than five decades, exactly a year after they started the process of normalizing relations. The latest step to restore U.S.-Cuba ties after 54 years of hostility will not go into effect immediately but should eventually increase tourism and business on the communist-ruled island. (www.reuters.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Maybe even some DC-3s? Hehehe. My grandparents flew to Cuba in one in 1958, family legend says.
Hi, Jeraboam:
You are welcome; we will see how everything turns out at the end, either way.
I hear that Cubana de Aviacion has in service the Antonov 158 regional jet for domestic and short to medium international flights to the Caribbean area.
Right now the only US airline that has a waiver from the US Department of State and the US Commerce Department to fly freight directly to Cuba (Jose Marti International Airport at Rancho Boyeros)is called IBC (International Bonded Couriers). They use Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner and Saab 340 turboprops.
You are welcome; we will see how everything turns out at the end, either way.
I hear that Cubana de Aviacion has in service the Antonov 158 regional jet for domestic and short to medium international flights to the Caribbean area.
Right now the only US airline that has a waiver from the US Department of State and the US Commerce Department to fly freight directly to Cuba (Jose Marti International Airport at Rancho Boyeros)is called IBC (International Bonded Couriers). They use Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner and Saab 340 turboprops.
Hi, Jeraboam:
At least we agree on the due compensation of "bona fide" companies or US business ventures that invested in and took a risk in Cuba previous to 1959.
It was the US ambassador the one who relayed a message to then president and dictator Fulgencio Batista and told him plainly on behalf of the US government that he had to go. Previously the US Government had "hinted" at this by imposing a military supplies embargo on the Cuban government, forcing them to buy weapons in Europe at a higher cost.
When Batista "finally" got the message to "leave or else", he took off from Camp Columbia (a military base in Havana) bound for the US, where he had lived before, but he was denied entry by the US government and his pilot had to turn around and head for Santo Domingo instead. All these actions (and other facts) helped the rebel forces in Cuba get the upper hand and win; but, the Cuban Revolution was not a communist revolution, it was a grassroots revolution from the middle class Cubans and it was started and led by José Antonio Echeverría in Havana and Frank Pais in Santiago de Cuba, among others, besides the Castro brothers.
At least we agree on the due compensation of "bona fide" companies or US business ventures that invested in and took a risk in Cuba previous to 1959.
It was the US ambassador the one who relayed a message to then president and dictator Fulgencio Batista and told him plainly on behalf of the US government that he had to go. Previously the US Government had "hinted" at this by imposing a military supplies embargo on the Cuban government, forcing them to buy weapons in Europe at a higher cost.
When Batista "finally" got the message to "leave or else", he took off from Camp Columbia (a military base in Havana) bound for the US, where he had lived before, but he was denied entry by the US government and his pilot had to turn around and head for Santo Domingo instead. All these actions (and other facts) helped the rebel forces in Cuba get the upper hand and win; but, the Cuban Revolution was not a communist revolution, it was a grassroots revolution from the middle class Cubans and it was started and led by José Antonio Echeverría in Havana and Frank Pais in Santiago de Cuba, among others, besides the Castro brothers.
You are right that the revolution was a grassroots movement led by middle class people like the Castros as is most national revolutions: the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the French Revolution, the Iranian Revolution,Vietnam, China,Bolivia,... Inevitably, these leaders were shaped by their events and times and led them to different ways to their common goals, to make lives better for the ordinary citizen. It's a shame that they are rarely supported by other nations whose governments fear the same revolts. This, inevitably, seems to lead to them trying to suppress the new regimes instead of supporting them in their chosen paths: socialism, communism, capitalism,... We continue to see the folly of this around the world today.
Our conversation seems to have come a long way from tourism in Cuba! Thanks for the additional insight into Cuba/US earlier relationships.
Our conversation seems to have come a long way from tourism in Cuba! Thanks for the additional insight into Cuba/US earlier relationships.
Hi, Even though Cuba's counter claims against the US have no ground or foot to stand on (except maybe for the proxy invasion); this dispute is exactly why I do not think this airline agreement will go forward or fall through.
On the part of the US, it is just a matter of money; you owe, you payback with interest; meaning the electrical company, the phone company, the railroads, cement factories, sugar mills, etcetera that were expropriated without due compensation at the time; in the US money is sacred, it represents work, and it is thicker than blood.
On the part of the US, it is just a matter of money; you owe, you payback with interest; meaning the electrical company, the phone company, the railroads, cement factories, sugar mills, etcetera that were expropriated without due compensation at the time; in the US money is sacred, it represents work, and it is thicker than blood.
I agree that these companies should have been reimbursed for expropriated facilities even though they were obtained often by illegal or immoral means. However, the actions of the US government attempting to starve and coerce the Cubans into surrendering their own country to a dictator and gangsters made repayment impossible even if they wanted to pay. Despite Cuba emulating the 1776 rebellion of the American colonies, the US has spent more than half a century trying to stamp out the government produced by the Cuban revolution and still supported by the majority of its people and most other nations. At the same time, US governments having been making trade deals with every other communist and dictator led country in the world: Russia, China, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Asian "Stans", Vietnam, ...