Thursday, July 06, 2006

Club Med for pinko-sandalistas

Hey, this sounds like the dream vacation for Bierkenstockers. Maybe JJ is lurking around?

The mainly youthful participants awake at 5:45 a.m. to the ballad "Guantanamera." By 7 a.m. they are clambering into the back of 1970s trucks, headed to the countryside to pick oranges, remove rocks from cane fields or repair schools.
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Federico Beccia, a political science student from Amsterdam, said he wanted to experience Cuba first hand. "The European press says Fidel is a dictator and things here are awful. I wanted to see with my own eyes. Here you can see the truth. I am not going to believe anything the press says about Cuba," he said, while hauling stones from a cane field.

Keep on hauling, man.

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