When I wrote this post on Cuba the other day, I did a little searching into travel to Cuba (a fruitless search into what "gifts", exactly, you are allowed to take and how much) and found a lot of buzz on whether or not the US is going to be lifting the ban on travel to Cuba soon. I just read this article from NPR on what that would mean and what some Cubans think about it. It paints a picture of white-sand beaches, icy mojitos sipped in hotel restaurants and mentions one dive shop's plans for a "swim-with-the-sharks" show (there are dive shops in Cuba?)
And then immediately after - oh the irony of Google Reader - I read Yoani Sanchez' newest post on Generacion Y, on Bulletin Boards:
"To me, not allowing these boards is one of the most visible signs of control over all kinds of spontaneous organization or interaction among citizens."
A country where the people aren't even allowed to communicate with each other over lost items, services needed, services offered ... it just might be the next big vacation hot spot, popping up in the Travel Channel's "Best Beaches" and everything.
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