Hey, Let’s Turn Gitmo Into a Cruise Ship Terminal!

You have to love all the rampant speculation and wild ideas floating around about Cuba tourism following news of Fidel Castro’s resignation this week. Take this USA Today report that “Cruise lines are ready to pounce on Cuba.” Um, is there any sector of the U.S. travel industry that hasn’t been ready to “pounce on Cuba” for decades? It drew a number of comments, including one from someone claiming to be a former security officer at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“If the US Navy ever closes the base at GITMO or allows for the building of a passenger ship terminal nearby,” wrote Dittyman, “it would make a wonderful place for cruise ships. Due to the unique conditions there, it has some wonderful wildlife there. It is like a mixture of a tropical island and the Austrialian Outback.”

Dittyman says he’d like to drive from Guantanamo to Havana in an SUV, scoring rum and cigars along the way.

While we’re bouncing around ideas, how about we pull a passenger ship up to the prison there and give all those detainees a free Caribbean cruise? The U.S. could film the whole thing, throw Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” over the footage and broadcast it around the globe. It would do wonders for the nation’s reputation abroad, no?

Take it away, Mr. Pop:

 

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