ARRESTED IN CUBA
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2017
- Our second day in Havana lends itself to time with the wonderful locals, tons of beautiful cars, and a walk on Malecon. An encounter with the local police reminds us we are in a communist country.
- Krátké a kreslené filmy
I'm from Cuba and I'm currently in Miami taking a course at George t baker, a school for A&P technicians and I just wanted to say that this video and story gave me shivers because It reminded me how messed up my country is.
Joan, thanks for chiming in, and I am thrilled to hear you are in the United States! Best wishes in your career.
These american turists are naive, they just met these two locals and said that they had good intentions. These is how turists in other countries
get robbed and even murdered for different reasons.
James, don't take this the wrong way, but don't discuss communism or politics while in Cuba. Not worth the aggravation or problems which it causes. Also be very careful on any of your postings on the Tube.
Mind your P's and Q's.
Noted! I'm at 45k feet headed back to LA right now.
James Sullivan maybe they wanted to shake you a little bit? ;)
I'm from Cuba and that types of things of people arrested just because they are talking to foreign persons are very common there. They persecute people they consider are disturbing tourism without asking if you are just having a conversation with people from other country.
That is very sad and was eye opening for me as a traveler.
That's bullshit. There are a few guys in Habana that speaks English and try to scam tourists that's why police control.
*Gell de Pinga* Cuba es uno de los paises con menos libertades del mundo. No hables tanta mierda todos aqui comocemos lo que es Cuba a quien tratas de engañar?
@@xScionesciox fuck communism fuck Diaz canel singao
Has nothing to do with being communist. For your safety they checked their criminal records and sure enough they weren't clean. I've been traveling to Cuba for the past ten years. The safest country hands down. Of course being young and naive makes you rush into conclusions. Safe travels guys!
72miserupe exactly
Interesting experience. Thanks for sharing. Please don't think Cuba is a bad place to visit. There are many many hustlers who will approach you as genuinely as possible. Tourists Always fall for this. Then end up out of pocket in the long run. That's the reason for Undercover Police in Havana Vieja (Old Havana). If Cubans want to go to the beach, they and I know that we can get a taxi for 1cuc ($1) direct. (No need to pay more) Communism has little to do with your experience. It's just because the Police are protecting you from Hustlers. And yes, Hustlers in Cuba range from young dudes, to middle aged men and women and also Grandma's. Yes I got hustled by Grandma because she was a really good story teller haha. I live in Cuba and am from London. I hope you visit again but stay for 3 or 4 months to really understand Cuba. All the best.
ThinkGlobal what job you do in Cuba :)
Ah, I was sitting on those stairs along the Malecon two years ago - this brought back memories! Have a safe trip the rest of the way, if you don't know where to go I loved both Viñales and Cienfuegos (although they're in opposite directions and require half a day of travel each.) Thanks for the excellent videos, please keep them coming!
Glad you enjoyed. I'm finishing up editing the last of the cuba videos right now - then its back to the regularly scheduled airplane nerdiness
Those two guys probably have a record, we call them jineteros. The police probably recognized them. To you guys they probably seemed innocent but they police knew they are up to no good.
Reksio Sabroso yeah that's how it is
No they can take any cuban who talks with a tourist to the office
LOL obviously you don’t have an idea how a totalitarian system works …
No you idiot. These cops think they are above everybody. They’re disgusting cops who even abuse the people
James when i first see the title, i taught that you r the one getting arrested, by the way , you v been so brave Sulvians to hangout with strangers and filming all these magic things, i would say the montage this time was perfect, Closed mesuem, Buildings, street, cars and motorcycle, local food, some local innocent guys get arrested, when a nice local women making money selling a drink, just insane juste cooooool keep doing it
Your videos are really interesting,. I know nothing about mechanics but I had a pilot's license a went to Cuba about 12 years ago. Pretty interesting place. Nice job
The cops might have saved you from getting robbed.
Darwin Bodero surely I had the experience that the police has an eye for some kind of people there....So they control if you are listed as someone who done that before u get in trouble if not u can go...
In Cuba everything is forbidden they even have a law that forbid Cubans from befriending to tourists. www.thedailybeast.com/cubas-12-most-absurd-prohibitions-that-tourists-may-never-notice
very unlikely there
WOW, YOU TWO BROTHERS SPEAK SPANISH LIKE A LOCAL,,, YOUR FOCUS ON MOTION IS VISUALLY MESMERIZING
Good Stuff James, keep up the good work
I just got back from Cuba and I learned the hustle. Locals befriend tourist and then take them for their money. The police are on top of them because they want to make it safe for people to visit. Locals try to get as much money as they can from tourists...can't blame them....but it can leave you stranded in cuba without cash.
I am cuban and i have to say that this has nothing to do with the komunisem. In cuba prostitution is illegal the cuban police don't like to see cubans with tourist because of this. They asked for ther ID because they wanted to see if these locals always are hangig with tourist. And it seems that this is resean why they get in trouble.
Pls don't judge me by my inglisch im not living in any inglisch speaking country and not a nativ speaker.
Lisa Mommer hermano así mismo es pero el yuma no entiende. El piensa que los jóvenes eran buenos y sus amigos. No entiende que la policía está metiendo en problemas con los mismos jóvenes todo el tiempo. Cuando yo vivía en Cuba nunca pasaba nada si estas con personas nornales
En todos los paises hay prostitucion, solo en Cuba arrestan a la gente por andar con tursitas. Asi que si la dictadura comunista tiene *TODO QUE VER CON ESTO*
Mentira, ve a tus estados unidos y vende tu latino america por unos verdes...
U getting close... don't worry
@@xScionesciox soy yuma, tengo hijos con mi esposo que es cubano. Tiraron el contra pared mi hijo gritando, y mi esposo saco nuestra licensia de matrimonio ""Casamos en Canada" nosotros vivia en canada y fuimos a ver familia. Despues el enseno nuestro certificado interroge mi hijo de si esa es su papa no pues ser, y tiro mi esposo por el piso golpeando y policia diciendo "no meta con las yumas". No preva a defender las cosas que aveces son indefensible. Dejaron el porque yo sace mi telefono y empezo a grabar y grito en ingles por cada tourista aredor a entender lo que estaba pasando.... Recuerde un cosa tambien no controla esa solo porque pues sacar dinero, jinetero etc...tambien es porque no quieren que los turistas saben lo verdad de las cosas que pasan en la isla.
Hey dudes not every Friendly face is a friend.Ritered military who's been to Cuba,Havana,and rest of the island about 7x.Semper Fi
Malecon in my understanding is a building in the beach to destroy biggest waves 🌊 but sometimes the meaning could be different in every country
Malecon is Sea Wall or Breakwater in Spanish.
sweet vid. glad u two didn't get locked up. take some pics of Chevy impala's for me, if u come across any.
Damn! Lucas is so sketchy looking he gets two locals arrested just for talking to him! Glad you got him out of that one James.
I'm not thaaaat sketchy...
lol
Your BP shirt is Awesome!
You're just a straight up good dude, James.
I was kinda worried about you two, i checked my email since i have your channel notify me via emails as well when you upload.. That title doesn't sound good and neither the fact that the video was never uploaded/deleted? Any who im glad you guys are fine!
Jo. A woman left a tip for $5000. It is S Shugarts. $1 B cocaine in Philly.
What is the name of that last song?
awesome car time lapse....FYI malecon means the walkway along the Beach.
:) smart cookie this one!
James Sullivan what song of 2:00
When you gonna bring one of the PC-12's out to Oklahoma?? :D
Wish it were up to me ;)
Malecon is bayside.
is that the same bp shirt from 5 yrs ago?
Yup!
James Sullivan that's awesome! u kept it in great shape!
Malecón= Pier
Malecon is not a pier it is an esplanade along a waterfront.
Which song did you use for the first upload?
This one - czcams.com/video/CUYrEiymUMY/video.html - which I thought was waaaayyyy more fitting and also I checked the artists copyright rules before uploading and thought it would be fine. Oh well...
Yeah it would have been better! I was adding a subtitle in that video just for the fun of it. Anyway great videos man keep it up!
Thanks!
bet you wont smoke a joint there cuz you can get up to 10years for it but i think in some ways the fact that they dont have internet and dont know what drugs are is a great thing man cuz drugs and internet are the root to all problems in the usa if we didnt have that the crime would be cuz by over half
I have a crush on the blonde guy even though I’ve been watching the video for 2 minutes. Lol
lol thats my bro
Are you North American or Cuban-American? What about your friend?
Use discretion when talking politics in Cuba 🇨🇺.
Stay away from troublemakers. You guys seem like nice people.
That sucks!
What Yaque yaque said is not totally true. As long as you are not trying to pull one of those to hurt the turist it you should be ok.
Have you considered for a moment that the cops were protecting you from being scammed ? The more likely out come was one way or another you were going to end up paying for something. The Cuban struggle for money is real. every time I have been approached on the street it has been about money. So much my Cuban friends like to watch when I walk alone ahead to see the scams. I love Cuba and the people but you have accept that life is hard for most people.
I had 205.00 cuc confiscated ,10 steps before the duty free shop,no cigars and no rum for this boy,they told me it is not permitted to take money out of the country,when I asked her how I could buy somthing in the duty free shop or a coffe in the snack bar she ignored me.....that's Cuba
+Fred Green that sounds about right
Never share a cab, robbing tourists is a thing there
live a little! robbing tourists is a thing in america too. never has stopped me from sharing a ride or hitch hiking (in this country or others)
"A fool and his money are easily parted"
"A fool lives their life in fear, an adventurer learns from his missteps and grows"
Such a racist bullshit. I used cabs for years there never got robbed. :* in the bus sometimes but there is more criminallity in the fuckin states than there
its what its some ting simple talking with tourist they look weird bump in cuba james you get arrested film get in trouble also the get crazy police dummy sometimes good video.
bruh that means the f slur
Cuba Cuba cuba
This is the reason guys like these shouldn´t go to Cuba. Just go to Canada and leave the Cubans alone...
Unfortunately police officers don t want foreigners to have "bad experience with local s" , that is probably what happened with your supposed friends .That s the way they act naturally , becoming friends with you but at the end they want to get some advantage from tourists it happened to me , that s why I say . We can not blame Cubans they have necessities and the need to make money selling you cigarrets, rom or anything . After that the majority are Great people
Dude I’m Cuban be careful what you say over there no rights they will throw you in jail for saying anything that offends the government and no you don’t have the right to an attorney
You said you're americans, your dont allow to go to the beach. That's more cruel. Also, in america if you go with total stranger, you migth end up as dead, and i think you will not do that. They are just concerned to both of you group.
Malecon= Pier
La contitucion no silve
James: the police don't just control the cubans talking to tourist because of petty crime. It's also so that tourists aren't introduced to the real cuba. Where anyone against the regime such as my husband who is a political dicident is arrested, beaten, tortured and disapear some show up dead. The Cuban people living on rations the money you spend on tourism there goes into the pockets of the regime who use it for the castros and families of generals to live the life of luxury while their own citizens are starving, with their houses collapsing on them while sandro castro grandson of fidel filmed himself driving a mercedes something a Cuban citizen will never have. They don't want you to be with cubans so you don't find out what's behind the curtain. Watch the new movie called "plantados" that's the real cuba. If you see something say something never keep walking.
So naive this guys. muy inocentes .
Oficiales no silve
Listen. If i saw you two in cuba i would not hesitate to come up to you and sell you hollywood fresh at 10 bucks a box. In other words im after your money. Thats what i did in cuba. Thats why the pnr did what they did.
the same in china.
Anti-Communist kids running around making accusations.
Who hurt you?