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#263545 - 07/30/07 01:27 PM
Has Anyone Been To Haiti?
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 7322
Loc: The Children's Limbo
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Seriously. I'm thinking about going there for a while. I'm not sure why. It's the worst place on Earth, but I've been possessed with Haitian history for the past week especially François Duvalier, Jean Price Mars, Dessalines and Henri Christophe.
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#263546 - 07/30/07 01:28 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/19/04
Posts: 7888
Loc: Carpathian Mountains
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You are now officially declared insane
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#263548 - 07/30/07 01:41 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 7322
Loc: The Children's Limbo
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A couple of days ago I started searching for people that had graduated from St Louis de Gonzague (one of the best schools in Port-au-Prince) and started e-mailing them asking them about the school and what kind of books they had in the library, what the curriculum is like etc. I'm also considering writing some of the staff and hopefully getting some letter communication going; so if any of you folks know peeps in Haiti, give me a holla!
btw Travieso. Out of all the people I've sold dolls to I've never once sold to a Haitian. 
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#263549 - 07/30/07 01:44 PM
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Sex Slave Trader
Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 1487
Loc: NYC
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Seriously. I'm thinking about going there for a while. I'm not sure why. It's the worst place on Earth, but I've been possessed with Haitian history for the past week especially François Duvalier, Jean Price Mars, Dessalines and Henri Christophe.
I share the dream.
Have you read Herbert Gold's THE BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH? If not, I highly recommend it. You might be better off in the D.R., really. It's as corrupt and dirty, and almost as perverse. There's just less chance you'll get machine-gunned or have your head macheted in half at high noon outside the train station. The situation there is of course at least ten times worse than when Gold wrote his book.
I always wanted to go to Gonave, the island off the coast that named a white king who happened to come ashore with the navy one day.
Graham Greene's THE COMEDIANS captures the maniacal hey-day of the Tontons Macoutes death squad.
Or just go to Cuba. Not to be missed.
Bon Voyage and Bon Chance!
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#263553 - 07/30/07 02:00 PM
Re: Has Anyone Been To Haiti?
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 7322
Loc: The Children's Limbo
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Charlie@FOXmagazine I haven't read that book but I will check for it. The book that first got me interested in Haiti was William Seabrook's The Magic Island. I actually read it as a kid and somehow it resurfaced when I was reading about Jean Price Mars. Soopergrizz: I've actually been to Cuba. I thought it was fantastic, but not as great as Columbia. I actually know a guy from Haiti but he doesn't like to talk about it. Maybe his parents were slaughtered or something.
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#263554 - 07/30/07 02:01 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 02/23/05
Posts: 3724
Loc: Paddling my canoe in the wild
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If you want to buy cheap Haitian art - take a trip to the Dominican Republic - most of the trinkets etc. on sale there are manufactured in Haiti.
The last time I was in the DR was a year or two ago and I bought two paintings which look to be in the Haitian style.
Proximity to Haitian art notwithstanding, Cuba is a way better place to visit than the DR (if you can get around the boycott). You can get a cheap package trip from Vancouver (or Toronto) and the Cuban immigration office doesn't stamp your passport.
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#263555 - 07/30/07 02:06 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 7322
Loc: The Children's Limbo
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Thanks man. Do you know if the Creole they speak in the Dominican Republic is similar to Haitian creole? Also do the two governments have commissaries with one another?
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#263558 - 07/30/07 02:13 PM
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Sex Slave Trader
Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 1487
Loc: NYC
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You'll love Cuba. Guaranteed.
But stay away from the women. Cuban women are psychotic. 
I hear you, but I'd actually have to vote for Dominican women as the craziest. Followed closely by Puerto Rican women. But then that's just me here in the Washington Heights barrio maybe.... 
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#263559 - 07/30/07 02:15 PM
Re: Has Anyone Been To Haiti?
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 7322
Loc: The Children's Limbo
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When I was in Cuba around 98, I meet an old woman named Sadrine who rolled cohiba's between her legs and stuck the tip in her pussy before handing it over to you.
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#263560 - 07/30/07 02:36 PM
Re: Has Anyone Been To Haiti?
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 06/05/05
Posts: 4468
Loc: Great America
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Thanks man. Do you know if the Creole they speak in the Dominican Republic is similar to Haitian creole? Also do the two governments have commissaries with one another?
no bro both creoles are diferent, only in the border speak a type of dialect but i dont recomend you go there is very dangerous and you can be converted in a voodoo zombie(druged chemical) go better to dominican republic: punta cana , santo domingo, bavaro, if you want fuck hookers go to Sosua
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#263561 - 07/30/07 02:42 PM
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One word, Loopnode: Kevlar.
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#263562 - 07/30/07 02:54 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 7322
Loc: The Children's Limbo
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Yeah, I know the situation there isn't good, but I'm sure it's not all bad. For example Pétionville and Labadee, although I wasn't going here for vacation or fucking whores. Mostly I was interested in going to Port-au-Prince, Delmas and Carrefour.
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#263563 - 07/30/07 02:55 PM
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Internet Tough Guy
Registered: 07/14/06
Posts: 775
Loc: Hollywood, CA
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One word, Loopnode: Kevlar.
What good is Kevlar against a knife?...
One word Loopnode: TANK.
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#263568 - 07/30/07 04:41 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 07/20/03
Posts: 5256
Loc: CSW Wrestling - Gracie Academy
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#263572 - 07/30/07 05:57 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 02/23/05
Posts: 3724
Loc: Paddling my canoe in the wild
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Umm, what happens if you lose your passport? How about your wallet? Are there channels to connect you to some money? What if you, say, hit someone with your car or the like? It's nice to have an embassy to show you the ropes, even if they can't spring you from your situations. 
Most folks from Canada go on one week package cruises to all-inclusive hotels. The most popular area is Varadero, about 2 hours from Havanna (it has its own airport). You don't need much cash while you are there except for trinkets and tips.
Costs about $100 to rent a car for a day trip (or more) to Havana - you can rent an apartment for about $50/day there. If you get hurt or sick, you will take advantage of the travel medical insurance offered by the package seller (about $30 for the week), if necessary they will medivac you out.
Crime is a non-issue there, so you won't worry about getting mugged. I have never ever heard of an attack on a tourist there, and I know hundreds of people who have gone.
If you just stupidly lose your passport - as the other poster said, there is a consulate in downtown Havana (across the street from where the wave picture was taken).
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#263573 - 07/30/07 05:59 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/19/04
Posts: 7888
Loc: Carpathian Mountains
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I knew a nurses aide who came from Haiti, he had saved enough to build a house in the country there, i remember asking him if it was safe and i think he said that it was kinda safe in the country but not in the cities. Dude don't make the trip just because i chided you about Denzel 
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#263574 - 07/30/07 06:00 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/19/04
Posts: 7888
Loc: Carpathian Mountains
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Why are we still Boycotting Cuba by the way?
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#263576 - 07/30/07 06:05 PM
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Sex Slave Trader
Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 1487
Loc: NYC
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Most folks from Canada go on one week package cruises to all-inclusive hotels. The most popular area is Varadero, about 2 hours from Havanna (it has its own airport). You don't need much cash while you are there except for trinkets and tips.
Costs about $100 to rent a car for a day trip (or more) to Havana - you can rent an apartment for about $50/day there. If you get hurt or sick, you will take advantage of the travel medical insurance offered by the package seller (about $30 for the week), if necessary they will medivac you out.
Crime is a non-issue there, so you won't worry about getting mugged. I have never ever heard of an attack on a tourist there, and I know hundreds of people who have gone.
If you just stupidly lose your passport - as the other poster said, there is a consulate in downtown Havana (across the street from where the wave picture was taken).
I always avoided Veradero, which is a world unto its own and quite unlike the rest of Cuba. But if you're into a beach vacation, that's where to go.
IMHO, there's no point in going to Cuba for a beach hang if you're a citizen of the USA. Not worth the potential legal trouble. The beaches are just as nice in the rest of the Caribbean. But if you're interested in hanging out in Havana, by all means GO! There's nothing like it.
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#263577 - 07/30/07 06:11 PM
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Sex Slave Trader
Registered: 01/10/06
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Why are we still Boycotting Cuba by the way?
On the most basic level, to appease the rich Cuban-Americans and Americans (the Hiltons, for one) who lost their fortunes to the Castro regime. They're a powerful voting bloc.
And, if you ask me, we still have a bit of a bug up our ass about the real roots of the JFK assassination too.
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#263579 - 07/30/07 06:22 PM
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Sex Slave Trader
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I'd love to go. I like the fact that it's not too touristed. And I love places that have that decayed-former grandeur look. 
There are incredible things to see amid the grinding poverty, away from the tourist spots. One highlight is the museum of the Ministry of the Interior, which houses all the items the CIA tried to kill Castro with (the poisoned cigar, briefcases with hidden rifles, etc.) I was pretty much tossed out of there by a female soldier ten years ago.
I never had hot water and the hotels went from new to nasty, so you have to know a little to get the good stuff. You can also get a little hungry eating where the citizens eat after a while. I used to sneak off to a tourist hotel with a few locals for hamburgers when the going got tough. Havana's getting better by the day and the prices are going up too, thanks to European investment. It'll be a very different place in a few years.
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#263581 - 07/30/07 07:10 PM
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Why are we still Boycotting Cuba by the way?
On the most basic level, to appease the rich Cuban-Americans and Americans (the Hiltons, for one) who lost their fortunes to the Castro regime. They're a powerful voting bloc.
And, if you ask me, we still have a bit of a bug up our ass about the real roots of the JFK assassination too.
From what I understand (and if I'm wrong please correct me) there's a real generational split amongst the Miami Exiles, with the younger generation (under 35) strongly favoring rapproachment with Havana, and their elders (most of whom can still remember the Batista regime) as opposed as ever. But that's the way of things. Change is incremental. Investment and the growing authority of the younger Castro are making smdest but steady changes throughout the Island. Time and maturation effect change amongst the Florida Cubanos.
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#263583 - 07/30/07 07:23 PM
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Sex Slave Trader
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From what I understand (and if I'm wrong please correct me) there's a real generational split amongst the Miami Exiles, with the younger generation (under 35) strongly favoring rapproachment with Havana, and their elders (most of whom can still remember the Batista regime) as opposed as ever. But that's the way of things. Change is incremental. Investment and the growing authority of the younger Castro are making smdest but steady changes throughout the Island. Time and maturation effect change amongst the Florida Cubanos.
I think you're 100% correct. It's going to take a while for those under-35s to take full control, though, and who knows what they might decide when they come to power. Most of those under-35s favoring change also tend to be have-nots, distressed that relatives inside Cuba aren't living well and/or interested in their heritage. The haves are largely toeing the line.
I also wouldn't expect all that much to change when Fidel dies. From what I've seen--including A LOT of ant-regime free speech in the streets--the people are rather supportive of their rebel stand. That could all come crashing down when McDonald's goes up next to the Hemingway House, but I'm not all that sure it will anytime soon.
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#263585 - 07/30/07 09:37 PM
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Human Garbage
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 1557
Loc: New York
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Cuba has a huge sex tourism trade going on. Castro says Cuban whores are the best in the world with great health care.
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#263586 - 07/30/07 10:50 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 02/23/05
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The benefit of going through Varadero is that the prices are cheap for roundtrip air from a Canadian hub. Last time I went, we flew into Varadero, spent a day or two getting buzzed on the beach, went to Havana for the rest of the week. In Havana, many people rent out 1 or 2 bedroom apartments to tourists. It can be a great experience - living in a faded colonial mansion - although it helps a lot if you speak Spanish, since not everyone speaks English. Here's a link to a site that allows Cubans to post their accomodations Casa Particular. Here's a 2 BR apartment with AC and hot water for $50/night Casa Alex One problem with the hotels, is that the food is not terribly good (think prison food with fresh fruit, even in super-luxe hotels). Better food is found in Paladars - semi-underground restaurants people set up inside their houses and apartments (the better ones are very busy and reservations are necessary).
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#263587 - 07/30/07 11:19 PM
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Gay For Pay
Registered: 02/04/05
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This picture might put you back into the Haitian swing of things.
yea, like that Haitian clown could afford a FAL 
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#263591 - 07/31/07 05:35 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 7322
Loc: The Children's Limbo
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I think El Glorioso hit on something earlier. Cubans understand Cubans, Colombians understand Colombians, and so on.
Theres a Columbian chick I know, shes the biggest bitch in the world but very attractive. Practically everyone I know overlooks the fact that she is a bitch because of how hot she is.
By the way, incase anyone is interested, the following airlines go to Haiti:
Air Canada, Air France, Air Guadeloupe, ALM, American Airlines, American Eagle, Copa, Haiti Trans Air, Halisa Air, Hanair, and Lynx. If you're American or Canadian you only need a passport (or Birth certificate) but no visa (including the Mexicans, Swedes, Israeli and Swiss). And because of all the excitement concerning the country, you are forced to be aware of the medical emergency numbers.
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