- ================================================= Expat Worlds Monthly Digest ================================================= May, 2003 Vol. 5, Issue 5 .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ==== THE STORY =================== (Compliment from the Expat World Newsletter) -=CUBA – The Sex Heaven in the Caribbean=- ==== EW SPECIAL ================== -=The Best Maildrop in Singapore=- ==== HUMOR, TRIVIA, NEWS AND MORE... == -=Trivia=- -=News Story=- -=Traveller's Tales=- -=Jokes=- ==== THE RESOURCE TIP ============= -=Trend Micro System Cleaner=- ==== INSIDE THIS MONTH EXPAT WORLD == -=Table of Content=- ==== THE STORY ================================== CUBA - THE SEX HAVEN IN THE CARIBBEAN A Land Where the Dollar is King Havana has been dubbed the sin capital of the western hemisphere. But most world travelers don't know that, especially American's who can't go to Cuba easily without the prospect of the wrath of the US government coming down on their heads when returning to the USA. Expat World will show you how to do it legally and have loads of fun later in this article. Open, flirtatious Cuban women stock Havana's beautiful seaside boulevard -- the Malecon (literally know as "the couch"). Girls take client's right here on the beach, with the soft, warm Caribbean waves lapping on the beach. Our recent correspondent who visited Cuba doing "research" for a story on Amour in the Caribbean was propositioned 37 times by his count on a stretch of beach maybe better called the "Sands of Sodom and Gomorrah". Morality is not a high priority in Cuba anymore where even daily ordinary goods are in such sort supply and usually only available for US dollars that everyday common, but beautiful women, think nothing of falling in love for a short time for dollars. The military police openly defy Castro's laws against prostitution and street walking and act as pimps for the girls to also get the almighty greenback to keep them and their families in food, clothing and a little of the finer things in life by Cuban standards. If you are an American and want to visit Cuban and you are out of the loop of the few lucky family members that are allowed to visit under special programs run by the US State department don't despair. You can enter Cuba from relatively close destinations like Canada, Costa Rica, the Bahamas, and other islands in the Caribbean. The Cuban government will welcome you and not put a stamp in your passport indicating that you were there. You will be issued instead a Cuban tourist visa that will be destroyed once you leave the island. No record appears in your US passport . If you want to go there legally, there is a loophole. You can go if you are a registered member of a press association and carrying a press card and you go there for research for an article or travel writing purposes. (See the side bar on the Expat World News International Press Corps) Cuba is generally a safe destination but as always when in a country of extreme poverty there is the usual petty crime of purse snatching, pick pockets and petty ripoffs, due not so much to the nature of the Cuban people but brought on by the seriousness of feeding the family. Just using ordinary sense like staying out of barrio areas and dark alleys in the middle of the night and sticking to well lit populous areas will do much to keep you from being a victim. A victim that you would be in any major city of any country ( with the possible exception of Singapore) by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. NIGHT LIFE -- Hotels and clubs are a major source of night life in Havana and other major areas that get their share of tourists. Some of the more famous and have a steady supply of women companionship. The world famous Tropicana, Habana Libre, Marina Hemingway (our correspondents favorite) Hotel Commodore, the National Hotel and many more all offer very cheap beautiful hostesses. Many including the Commodore and Hemingway have dozens of cottages on the grounds. The Commodore has a delightful swimming pool which like a river runs past all the cottages. You can have a butler attended to your wishes, prepare meals, housekeep, etc., while you entertain your girls in a relaxed, private way for the equivalent of a few dollars a day. The value is brilliant says our recent correspondent doing his "research". Any visitor to Havana had better like cabarets because they are the major form of night time organized entertainment. The essential ingredient to any cabaret in a dollar hotel seems to be an excess of female flesh. The titillation factor is much reduced in the shows laid on for local audiences. The local shows are much better value for money and more fun too. Many peso hotels put on a cabaret at weekends, as do some restaurants and night clubs. The evening's entertainment usually consists of a choice of bands (playing salsa or other traditional Cuban music. Admission is cheap to local cabarets and there is usually alcohol of some sort, usually the local rum. In the dollar hotels which are most four or five-star tourist hotels, they will have an in-house disco which generally costs $5-10 admission. Prostitutes proliferate at many of these discos. On speaking of prostitutes. It would be fair to say that most of the "working women' are prostitutes ONLY by strict definition of the word. For any area in the city (so many places) which is thronging with girls, you will find both true prostitutes and amateurs who are mostly local women who are disparate to meet foreigners for a good night out and want a little "monetary appreciation" to help them live above poverty, to feed their family and take care of their health needs. This shouldn't cost anyone looking for a companion to liven up the evenings in Habana more than about $20 dollars in cash or goods. The choice of "ordinary citizens" is unbelievable who even in the hay days of Cuba in the fifties were always oversexed Latinos looking for amour. Throw in today's need to survive where the dollar is king and you have this state of almost free love. Viva la Cuba! ==== EW SPECIAL ================================= YOUR FIRST STEP TO PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL PRIVACY IS: a maildrop. 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(Answer below) ----- NEWS STORY DISPUTED DANCE: Singer Inul Daratista performs at a cafe in Surabaya, East Java. The Council of Indonesian Islamic Scholars called her dancing 'devilish' and 'lustful' in a statement released earlier this year. Islamic revivalism has mostly remained confined to personal choice rather than becoming a matter of state sanction. Although some may disapprove, women here are free to wear miniskirts, drink in bars - or shimmy their hips to make a living. (CSMonitor) ----- TRAVELLER'S TALES BENT OUT OF SHAPE: A wrestler was rejected for a job in the police department because he had funny-looking ears. Ashok Kumar of Chandigarh, India, has passed all the preliminary medical tests to join the Central Reserve Police Force. But in the final reckoning he was declared unfit, the reason given being that his ears were of an "abnormal" shape. Kumar, furious, wrote to the authorities complaining about this decision by police doctors. He admitted that he had ell-mauled ears, but explained that it was normal for those organs to get stretched a bit through excessive wrestling. His story appeared in The Tribune newspaper, along with his allegations that there was a plot to prevent him from realizing his dream of becoming a policeman. The paper also printed comments from wrestling experts who agreed it was "quite common" for wrestlers to lose the shape of their ears after some time. Police doctors did not explain the connection between ear shape and police work. ----- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." --Howard Ruff - Faith is the sister of justice. --Latin Proverb ----- No Speeka da Engliss A bus stops and two Italian men get on. They sit down and engage in an animated conversation. The lady sitting behind them ignores them at first,but her attention is galvanized when she hears one of the men say the following : - "Emma come first. Den I come. Den two asses come together. I come once-a-more. Two asses, they come together again. I come again and pee twice. Then I come one lasta time." - "You foul-mouthed sex obsessed swine," retorted the lady indignantly. "In this country....we don't speak aloud in pubic places about our sex lives......... - "Hey, coola down lady," said the man. "Who talkin' abouta sexa? I'm a justa tellin' my frienda how to spella 'Mississippi'." - There once was a dog named Tax. I opened the door and income Tax. ----- TRIVIA ANSWER In 1926, Cmdr. Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett were the first to fly over the North Pole. ==== THE RESOURCE TIP ============================ Trend Micro System Cleaner This tool supports the following features: o Terminate all malware instances in memory o Remove malware registry entries o Remove malware entries from system files o Scan for and delete all malware copies in all local hard drives Don't know whats a malare? From the webopedia: Short for malicious software. 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Download the Micro System Cleaner at: http://www.trendmicro.com/download/tsc.asp ==== INSIDE THIS MONTH EXPAT WORLD =============== EXPAT WORLD NEWSLETTER (VOL.15 ISSUE 5) Table of Content: - CUBA – The Sex Heaven in the Caribbean - Bits and Pieces - Stolen Australian Passports - East Caribbean States Soon to Have a Common Passport - Canada to Relax Marijuana Laws - Singapore's Nanny Nation - Cheap Living and Your Own Town to Boot! - At the Other End of the Spectrum of Cheap Living is Ireland - Ireland – The Most Expensive Country in Europe - Live in New Zealand - Entrepreneurs of the Bay of Island Honduras - Globalization -- The Perfect Example - The Local Scene - Around the World with Expat World - Letter from "DISNEYLAND" - Inside the Hud Fraud Network - Secret History of Iran-Contra Conspiracy - Corporate-Government Fraud - Bush Family "Business" Deals: ''FRAUDS-R-US' - Real Estate Frauds - Crapper Wrapper - Why the English Language is so hard to Learn YOU MISSING SO MUCH Each week the EXPAT WORLD DIGEST gives you just a smattering of what you can find in the EXPAT WORLD newsletter that we produce once a month. 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