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...reality tours are as heavy on left-wing politics as the Chiapas trip. Global Exchange sponsors "Jammin' in Havana," with an emphasis on music, and its next visit to Iran focuses on Iranian cinema. Nor are all reality tourists liberals. "Republicans are not uncommon," claims Global Exchange spokesman Jason Mark. He recalls with fondness a Texan who broke into God Bless America during a Cuba tour. "The Cubans groaned, and he demanded to know 'What's the problem? God or America?'" The trips have been known to provoke participants to activism. Two participants on a Global Exchange trip to Haiti...
...extremely well for Castro at home. And they had been a double disaster for exile activists, who ultimately lost a battle in which they succeeded only in alienating their cause from the American mainstream. The idea of sending Elian to New York may look like another propaganda bonanza to Havana - it would get up the noses of the exile community once again. Even if it didn't, Castro would hope to turn Cuba's best-known grade-schooler into a poster child of vitality for his wheezy revolution - just as the exiles had done for their cause after...
...reality tours are as heavy on left-wing politics as the Chiapas trip. Global Exchange sponsors "Jammin' in Havana," with an emphasis on music, and its next visit to Iran focuses on Iranian cinema. Nor are all reality tourists liberals...
...popular Cuba-based musicians in the awards ceremony, and had planned protest actions in order to draw attention to the Castro government's restrictions on artistic expression. The planned protest followed a long-established exile tradition of protesting anything that could be construed as a normalization of ties with Havana...
...first take a stroll from the hotel through gorgeous, weather-worn Old Havana, where many of the palaces and plazas date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Highlights include the Teatro Nacional and Plaza de la Catedral, with its nearby open-air market for Che berets and other tourist kitsch. For a brush with real Cubans and a sense of the island's emerging private economy, stroll over to Cuatro Caminos, a farmers' market and photographers' paradise full of colorful fruits, flowers and the ever whimsical fly-covered goat heads...