Hey, You With The 25 Smartphones! Cuba Gets Tough With Tourists Bringing Goods To Island
HAVANA (AP) — Lugging duffel bags crammed with soap, socks, toys and toiletries, travelers arriving in Cuba on Monday carried loads of hard-to-obtain consumer goods but complained that new government restrictions on their imports would leave their families wanting.
Passengers on the day’s first flights from Miami grumbled about higher duty fees and limits on the amount of products they could bring to Cuban relatives frustrated with the high prices and scarcity of quality products. At Havana’s international airport, there appeared to be fewer bicycles, 40-inch televisions or other bulky household items that normally made the baggage carousels look like the inventory line of a Target or Wal-Mart.
“There are barely any bags on the floor inside,” said Arnaldo Roa, a 45-year-old Miami handyman on a trip to see relatives. While he had a bag stuffed with toys and clothes for his daughter, he said he wasn’t able to bring his usual extra bags filled with gifts for other family members.
“I’m upset,” he said. “Some relatives are going to get upset because normally I bring them things.”
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Who’d want to watch the one state analog channel on a 40″ TV anyway…
Sheryl Crow (one sheet per use) would be okay there.
Toilet paper? You just wipe your ass on the hotel curtains. It’s expected.
@Corona – That one reminds me of the old joke about the Redneck who could make his wife keep screaming for an hour after sex!
maybe they will let sean penn in with some extra TP when he goes for his medical treatment.
Why travel to Cuba as long as Barky is hustling the Third World into every last corner of the USA ?
Not that I MIND wiping my ass with a poster of Dear Leader… it’s juss the kilngons he leaves behind… 😳
I won’t be shaking any Cubans’ left hands
Cuba (or Zimbabwe): America in a decade.
Except there won’t be anyone to bring us stuff.
“Worker’s paradise,” my eye.