VARADERO, Cuba - Ma hope o nā bakau e ʻūlū nei i ka wai polū o Kuba Bay o Cardenas, ke kū nei kahi marina 1,500-slip i ka wā e hoʻomākaukau ana ka ʻoihana hoʻokipa mokupuni no ka mea ʻoi loa ka pilikia.
E hele mai ana ka poʻe ʻAmelika - a i ʻole ia e hiki koke mai paha.
Hoʻokomo ʻia nā jetties pōhaku i loko o ke kai kūʻono a ma ʻō aku o lākou e kū nei kahi ʻāina i like ka nui o nā kahua pōpeku, lawe hou ʻia mai ka wai ma ke ʻāpana o kahi papahana marina hou ma Varadero, kahi kahakai kahakai 80 mile (130 km) hikina o Havana.
"E hele mai nā ʻAmelika ma aneʻi i loko o kā lākou yachts a waiho lākou iā lākou i ka marina," i ʻōlelo ʻia e kahi kiaʻi kiaʻi, e hōʻike ana i ka neʻe ʻana o ka honua a me ka hoʻoʻu one ma hope o nā bakau.
"Ua kokoke loa ia, ke kakali nei lākou i ka nui o lākou," ua hoʻohui ʻo ia, e pili ana iā ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa he 90 mile (145 km) ka mamao.
Ua hoʻokaʻawale ʻia ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa a me Kuba e kahi ākea ideological ākea mai ka Fidel Castro's 1959 Revolution.
No ka hapa nui o kēlā manawa, pāpā ʻia ka poʻe ʻAmelika e kā lākou mau kānāwai ponoʻī mai ka hele ʻana i ka mokupuni Caribbean i alakaʻi ʻia e ka komunista ma lalo o kahi embargo kālepa 47 makahiki o US.
Akā e loli paha kēlā. Ke kali nei ke kānāwai no ka huakaʻi manuahi ʻana o ʻAmelika i Cuba i ka US Congress, a manaʻo ka poʻe kākoʻo e hiki ke ʻae ʻia i ka mea a lākou e ʻike nei ma ke ʻano he ulu ulu i nā pilina o US-Cuba ma lalo o ka Pelekikena US Barack Obama.
"Inā hāpai ʻia ka pāpā hele, ʻike paha ʻoe i mau haneli, he mau haneli yachtsmen ʻAmelika e hele nei i Cuba i ka lā aʻe," i ʻōlelo ʻia ʻo Timothy Ashby, kahi luna o ka US Commerce Department e aʻo nei i nā pilikia kalepa Cuban.
Ke kali nei ke aupuni o Cuba a me ka poʻe i kēia manawa no kahi manawa lōʻihi, akā e hāpai ʻia ana nā nīnau e pili ana i ko lākou mākaukau no ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana o nā mea kipa ʻAmelika.
Ke nānā nei nā kānalua i ka hiki a me ka maikaʻi o nā ʻoihana huakaʻi a Cuba, akā e pili ana paha i nā hopena politika i kahi mokupuni i pale aku i ka mana o US no 50 mau makahiki.
Ma hope o nā makahiki huhū me ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, ʻaʻole makemake nā alakaʻi Cuban e ʻōlelo i nā kūkulu e like me ka marina ʻo Varadero, a me nā papahana kolepa nui a me nā hana leʻaleʻa, ke kūkulu ʻia nei me ka mākeke ʻAmelika.
ʻO ka laina aupuni ke hoʻomākaukau nei ʻo Cuba no nā mea kipa mai ka honua holoʻokoʻa a inā pili pū kekahi i nā ʻAmelika.
Akā ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ka mākeke kūlohelohe no Cuba, nona ka hoʻokele waiwai e pīhoihoi nei i ka poino i kau ʻia e nā ʻino ʻekolu i ka makahiki i hala a me ka pilikia kālā kūwaho e kū nei.
KA MANAʻO ANA I KAHI PAHUAHI
Ua manaʻo ʻia kahi noiʻi no ka International Monetary Fund e like me ka 3.5 miliona mau ʻAmelika i hiki ke kipa aku iā Cuba i kēlā me kēia makahiki ke hāpai ʻia ka pāpā hele.
Akā ʻōlelo nā loea huakaʻi he 500,000 paha ka nui o ke kiʻekiʻe a ke aupuni Cuban e ʻae ai i nā makahiki mua no ka lawa ʻole o nā pono no nā mea hou aʻe.
"Mākaukau ʻo Cuba e omo i kahi hapalua miliona mau malihini kipa i kēlā me kēia makahiki, akā ʻaʻole miliona hou, ma muli wale nō o ka hiki i ka hōkele," i ʻōlelo ʻia e kahi ʻoihana haole i ka ʻoihana huakaʻi ʻo Cuba.
"Manaʻo wau e hoʻāʻo lākou e kāohi i ka mea hiki iā lākou ke hōʻalo i kahi boom i hiki ʻole i kekahi ke kāohi. E hoʻāʻo kēlā me kēia ʻāina i ka honua e hana i ka mea like, "ua hoʻohui ʻo ia.
ʻO kekahi o nā waiwai nui a Kuba i nā makahiki i hala aku nei, ʻo ia ka huakaʻi mākaʻikaʻi haole, nāna i lawe mai he 2.3 miliona mau malihini kipa a me $ 2.5 biliona kālā i loaʻa kālā ma 2008.
Wahi a nā helu aupuni, aia ma ka mokupuni he 55,000 mau lumi hōkele ma 2007, ka makahiki i hala e loaʻa nā helu. Ma ka liʻiliʻi he 10,000 mau mea e kūkulu ʻia nei, a ʻo nā mea ʻē aʻe ma nā papa kaha kiʻi.
Wahi a ka poʻe loea, pono ʻo Cuba i mau hōkele ʻehā a ʻelima mau hōkū no ʻAmelika, akā ʻoi aku ka nui o nā hale ʻaina maikaʻi, nā hale kūʻai, nā kaʻa hoʻolimalima a me nā pono mākaʻikaʻi ʻē aʻe.
Ma mua o ka lilo ʻana o Fidel Castro i ka mana ma Ianuali 1, 1959 i ka haunaele guerrilla, he kahua pāʻani ʻo Kuba kahi a nā ʻAmelika e puhi ai i ka booze i ka wā ʻo Prohibition a piliwaiwai a ʻoliʻoli i ka pō ma nā hale kūʻai ʻo Mafia i kūkulu ʻia a me nā hale kalapu i nā makahiki 1950.
Ua holo mai lākou i loko o nā waʻapā a me nā mokulele, a lawe nā ferry iā lākou i mua a i kēlā ʻaoʻao hoʻi o ka Straits of Florida mai Key West. Ua hoʻopiha lākou i nā hōkele ʻo Havana e like me ka Plaza a me ka Inglaterra a kau ʻia i ka pā o Sloppy Joe a i ʻole ka hale kalapu Tropicana.
DEBATE "AMERICANIZATION"
I ka makahiki 2007, hōʻike wale nā kiʻi aupuni Cuban i 40,000 mau kānaka i kipa ʻia mai ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, ʻoiai ʻoi aku ka kiʻekiʻe o ke kino holoʻokoʻa no ka mea he nui ka poʻe i hele mai i ka mokupuni ma o nā ʻāina ʻē ma nā kipa kū ʻole i ke kānāwai o US.
I ka hoʻohālikelike ʻana, 660,000 i hele mai mai Kanada, ka mea hoʻolako kiʻekiʻe o nā mākaʻikaʻi i ka mokupuni, a ukali ʻia e ʻEulopa.
Manaʻo ka poʻe kūʻē i ka embargo Cuba e hiki i nā malihini kipa ʻAmelika ke wehe i nā manawa kūpono no nā mea hoʻopukapuka US ma kahi mākeke Cuban i hoʻomalu ʻia e nā Europa a me nā Kanada.
"Manaʻo wau e nui ana ka ikaika o nā makemake e like me Marriott (MAR.N) a me Hyatt a me Starwood (HOT.N) a me nā mea ʻē aʻe e ʻae i ka hoʻopukapuka US," wahi a Ashby.
Ma muli o ke kokoke, ua ʻōlelo ka poʻe loea huakaʻi he mea hiki ʻole ia e lilo ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i kekahi lā ma luna o ka mākaʻikaʻi Cuba. Ma waena o 10 mau makahiki, wahi a kekahi kumuwaiwai ʻoihana, malia paha he 70 pākēneka o nā mea kipa o ka mokupuni ʻo ʻAmelika a Kanada paha.
Ke kū nei kēlā, i ʻōlelo ʻia ʻo Nigel Hunt, ke poʻo o Cubaism Ltd, kahi pūnaewele kūʻai huakaʻi pūnaewele, ʻo nā poʻe ʻEulopa e hana nei ma kahi o 40 pākēneka o nā mākaʻikaʻi Cuba e hele ma kahi ʻē.
"Inā lilo ʻo Cuba i ʻAmelika, ʻaʻole paha e ʻemi iki i ka poʻe ʻEulopa ... ʻO ia ka mea e hoihoi ai ʻo Cuba, ʻaʻole i laha nui ka moʻomeheu ʻAmelika i aneʻi," i ʻōlelo ʻo ia.
ʻO ka "Americanization" ʻo Cuba kahi kūʻai aku ma Wakinekona no ka hāpai ʻana i ka pāpā pāpā. Wahi a nā kākoʻo he nui ka poʻe ʻAmelika e kipa aku i ka mokupuni, ʻoi aku ka nui o ke kaomi no ka wehe waiwai a me ka politika ma ka mokupuni.
ʻOiai paha e huhū nā alakaʻi o Cuba no ka manaolana o ka heluna nui o nā ʻAmelika e hōʻea ana, ʻo ka poʻe maʻamau ma Varadero e hilinaʻi nei i ka mākaʻikaʻi no ka noho ʻana me ka hopohopo ʻole.
"ʻAʻohe mea ma aneʻi e kūʻē i ka poʻe ʻAmelika," wahi a ka mea kuke hōkele a me kahi kalaiwa kaʻa ʻo Jorge Mendives ʻoiai ʻo ia e pupuhi ana i ka paka i waho o ka hōkele ʻo Mansion Xanadu hanohano, i kūkulu ʻia i nā makahiki 1920 e ka milionea US Irenee du Pont de Nemours.
"E hele lākou i Varadero i loko o kā lākou mau moku a i ʻole no ka mea no mākou nā ʻAmelika he hoʻokahi mea - ʻoi aku ke kālā".
