-> ,validPeriod= "Welcome to Cuba" - the inscription on the poster showing Raul Castro and Barack Obama. Prepared many months visit is the biggest logistics project in the history of presidential travel Obama (RAMON ESPINOSA / AP) 2 -> Obama more important than Castro Havana was preparing for the arrival of Obama like a great Potemkin village. It was best that can be seen around the stadium Latinoamericano, which will be held on Tuesday, Cuba baseball game vs. the American club Tampa Bay Rays, with the participation of Presidents Obama and Castro. two weeks lasted there a general cleanup. Object repainted on jaskrawoniebiesko for sure a couple of times. On Friday, the truck had brought new palm trees, bushes and flowers that were planted to the Tuesday looked as if they were growing here forever. The stands were repaired, leveled surface, tried a new sound system, etc. The renovation works lasted also in the streets surrounding the stadium - Contractors flew holes in the walls of buildings, followed by scaffolding occupied painters. All for state money. - You never know, maybe the president before the game he wants to take a walk on our street - told me the natives, who are these renovations do not remember for years. In any normal country in the world, when people say "president" they mean their own president. In Havana, when people say "el presidente", they mean not Raúl Castro nor the retired leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro, only Obama. Perhaps "el presidente" would look here, we have to be prepared and be in order. We are pleased that "el presidente" arrives, because it is a sign that the country will begin to change for the better. - I think he understand that we are doing everything to "el presidente" was safe - explained to me tajniaczka which she wrote me around the stadium. My conversations with people raised concerns, someone reported and nothing grew out of the ground, but armed only legitimacy, notepad and pen. A year ago, was carried out in Cuba, an independent survey commissioned by Univision television - 80 percent. Cubans rated Obama favorably and 17 percent. - Negatively. Such support of the American president does not have in any other country in the world. For comparison, the Castro brothers were in the survey on a slight negative territory - both Raul and Fidel, they had a few percent more critics than supporters. You do not need anyway any polls that have guessed - just walk around Havana . Although the walls still appear Communist slogans, but next to these walls, it comes a lot of young people dressed in hats, shirts or trousers with the flag of the US. If their beloved "el presidente" actually decided to walk before the game of baseball, it is better that it was a short walk. Because about three streets behind the stadium Latinoamericano any renovation is not - is the same as it was dingy and smrodliwie walls still shabby and cracked, and the streets full of holes. Also along the Malecón, the famous passage on the sea, which "el presidente" maybe he complete, odpicowany facades of some houses. - So much work, but I think in vain. Because as long as "el presidente" will be looking at our building? Second? By the time did not have time to appreciate that, for example. Shutters are świeżutko repainted - told me from the balcony on the first floor of a pensioner who lives near the US Embassy. The island appeared in the internet Exacting preparation also continued - for many weeks or even months - in Washington. The visit to Cuba is the largest - in terms of logistics - a journey into the history of the Obama presidency. Together with him to Havana arrived wife Michelle, two daughters, four heads of departments, dozens of congressmen, hundreds of businessmen, envoys of the Cuban community in Florida and the baseball team Tampa Bay Rays. In total, the delegation engaged in hotels and residences in Havana more than a thousand rooms. All of this Byzantine pump is to be emphatic, symbolic confirmation of what unexpectedly in December 2014. Announced at the same time Obama and Raul Castro: that after more than half the age of the two countries normalize relations. It ended with the isolation of Cuba, which - in the intentions of the Americans, starting with President Kennedy - was to bring the Castro brothers regime to collapse. - Since over 50 years we do something, but it does not bring results, it means that the time to try something else - explained Obama. Since then opened the embassy - the American in Havana and the Cuban in Washington. Both countries have already remarked on the resumption of regular flights (will begin in the fall), and ferry connections between Cuba and Miami. A few days ago, the first postal mail from the United States arrived in Cuba - that also is of great importance, because in Florida lived several million Cuban exiles. All this was made possible by regulations Obama and various subordinate departments - but the embargo still formally remain in force. It was passed by Congress and only Congress can be abolished. Therefore, for example. Americans still can not travel to Cuba as tourists, but Obama tried to do this prohibition as many holes: You can go for religious purposes, cultural, business, etc. Since the liberalization of this possibility benefited 140 thousand. US citizens. Surveys show that more than two-thirds of Americans want to lift the embargo, but Republicans, who have a majority in both houses of Congress, have a different opinion. They believe that "a new beginning" with Cuba is a scandal, because in exchange for the lifting of isolation of Obama nothing gained: the brothers Castro promised free elections, some Cuban opposition continues to rot in prison, and the others are intimidated and persecuted - even on Sundays, some hours before the arrival of Obama in front of foreign journalists undercover agents beat and arrested independent journalist Lázaro Yuri Roca, who came to the demonstration of the Ladies in White, or women over the years protesting every Sunday against the imprisonment of their husbands. After the demonstration, tens Dam strength packed into buses - as sacks of potatoes - and taken away in an unknown direction (it is repeated often, are usually released after a few hours). - Nothing improves, it is even worse! - Told me Antonio Rodiles, one of 15 Cuban dissidents invited to Tuesday's meeting with Obama at the US Embassy in Havana. His critics American president replies: yes, you're right, Cuba remains a totalitarian state. - But the "new opening" is just to create conditions for change - he argued in an interview with Yahoo News. Ten days ago he wrote an open letter to the Ladies in White, which he called "an inspiration to all freedom movements and human rights defenders in the world." He explained to them that "we will do more for the Cubans, allowing them to open to the world and promote our values." The only significant promise that Obama forced the brothers Castro 14 months ago, Cuba was connected to the Internet. When Cubans begin to imbibe the western culture, even if you did this begin downloading charts pop music or film, when the Internet will enable them to frequent and close contacts with Cuban exiles in Florida when they read on the Internet and viewed what they want, then they become more aware, more empowerment and will force their leaders to change. So both sides - Obama and Cuban regime - they play poker cards on the table. At stake is the future of Cuba. Probably only a few dozen years, we'll find out who won. Cubans absorb the world Incidentally, I have a pretty good insight into this poker game, because I was in Cuba in December 2014., which is a week before the historic occurrence of Obama, and I went back now, on his appointment. at the airport otherwise - 14 months ago I dug my suitcase and checked every book, making sure that it has no subversive content. Now, no one cared luggage and check-in lasted maybe 20 minutes. Havana also changed significantly. On the streets there is a lot more tourists, hustlers preying on tourists, prostitutes and pimps. Alongside these are not necessarily sympathetic changes, however, is something much more shocking and builds - that in many places, especially in the district of Vedado, you can see dozens, hundreds, thousands of natives who are caught up staring at screens phones and laptops, and seem completely detached from the surrounding reality . And this is the case, because the Castro brothers kept their promise - in Havana appeared in a public Internet! This is already more than 20 points wi-fi. Hawańscy Internet users have for $ 2. buy a card with a code that gives them the hour access. In a country where monthly salaries amount to tens of dollars, seems like a prohibitive price, but somehow is not. What are they doing on the internet hawańczycy? First of all, to call relatives in the US, downloading music, undermine the virtually. They dominated by the young, but there are grandmothers who overcame disgust gadgets and excited to talk with children who once fled to Miami. The most popular point wi-fi in Havana is located in a place where the passage Malecón combines with 23. Avenue, the main street of the district of Vedado. There, people gathered, before the established internet - for decades sit on the wall, enjoying the cool sea breeze, sipping wine, sing and be fooling around. Currently, every evening repeated there miracle of Galilee, where Jesus Christ made loaves. However, the miracle worker of the Malecón - his name must remain silent - do not multiply in food, only the internet. His laptop is connected to a public wi-fi ($ 2. Per hour). It then creates the so-called. hot spot, which is its own access point. From the clients connecting to the network through it takes a dollar an hour, sometimes less, when a teenager comes with imploring eyes and banknote value of half a dollar. When I discovered his secret, reluctantly he admitted that he is able to make about 30-fold multiplication. This miracle is not the only surprise in Havana online. Amazingly, the parties Cuban dissidents, including eg. The Ladies in White and blogger Yoani Sanchez, who in 2013. Received in Warsaw title of Man of the Year "Gazeta Wyborcza", are not blocked. However, I have not seen anyone who did not go on. The reason is not fear. - We have so many private things, so many years of outstanding calls from Miami to catch that simply no one yet thought about politics - told me young. - We do not have the time or money ... So, it is exactly as he wanted Obama - Cubans absorb the world. For now, few, so far only in Havana, but still it started. But also exactly how he wanted the Cuban regime - people are so choking the world that does not care about their politics. Both players in the big Cuban poker is probably optimistic. Subscribe to digital Electoral available through the internet, phone, tablet and eReader from 19.90 per month Very good, but not from Kennedy, only Eisenhovera. To assess Login or zarejestrujX
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