our brothers and sisters abroad on two wheels throw a nice party and what happens?  the man mucks it up. 

http://www.periodico26.cu/english/sports/byke021207.htm

so.  god.  damned.  typical.

i have to admit that this makes no sense to me on any level.  even assuming i wasn't a radicalized revolutionary, i'd assume people would want to spread their own personal gospel and help facilitate change.  self-indulgent capitalists could go over there as ambassadors of the efficiency of free markets and distribute publications by the university of chicago school of economics.  assuming you're some sort of american nationalist zealot, sending people over there as spies and subversives (the classic james bond meets pat buchanan fantasy paranoia psychosis) to distribute copies of the u.s. constitution and ronald reagan's autobiography couldn't hurt and might help.  maybe you're just not big on socialism and want to politely engage them on their system.

no matter where you're coming from, wouldn't sending people over there as ambassadors be more effective than pouting and sulking and doing the whole "passive aggressive i'm not talking to you because you said hurtful things in a hurtful way" routine, which even my five year old son has mostly outgrown be an improvement?

next year.  cuban training camp from december through march.  you heard it here first.