Miami Architect Has Big Plans for Havana

Caught this at the Herald, also. Some of the many comments:

you people are nuts. do you know how the real cubans in the island see this type of initiative ? there they go again; those miami gusanos [earthworms] planning to take over and change our banana republic...

Posted by: not a bananero
12/24/2007 6:49 AM

Front page news.....NOT!! How presumptuous. The Cuban government and people will be deciding this issue, not some "Ugly Americans" in Miami.

The Herald's front page news is many times laughable. How parochial for a big city newspaper.

Posted by: Ewing
12/24/2007 8:16 AM

Why are we spending American tax dollars on a project for a country we don't even have diplomatic relations with? This is the kind of stupidity that Fidel and his government love to feed from. I could just hear Fidel saying "Those stupid Yanquis!".

Posted by: Justice in Miami
12/24/2007 8:17 AM

What hubris.

Sergio Pino as an "urbanization expert?" Sergio Pino, Jorge Perez and the rest of the Latin Builders Association can't wait for Cuba to be free so they can go down there, demolish the buildings on the Malecon and put up a wall of high rise condos.

Posted by: Not fooled.
12/24/2007 9:07 AM

FIU = Florida Immigrant University

Posted by:
12/24/2007 10:59 AM

Fix up Little Havanna first. Then worry about another country's business.

Posted by: Think About It
12/24/2007 11:21 AM

FIU = Castro espionage professors. President Mitch Mydick asleep at the wheel.

Posted by:
12/24/2007 11:28 AM

These designers at FIU are a bunch of reactionary lunatics, daydreaming for the impossible.

Posted by: Belial
12/24/2007 5:52 PM

WTF - IT'S A SCHOOL PROJECT PEOPLE!!! NOTHING MORE.

So sad to see all the rats and cockroaches come out all at once at the slightest provocation. There goes the illusion that the kitchen in clean! American society's ever present under-current of racism, ignorance and envy at its best.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR TO ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE OF AMERICA.

Posted by: Americano
12/24/2007 6:21 PM

[Photo by JEFFREY M. BOAN/EL NUEVO HERALD)