The bus attendant, like a steward on a plane, mans a mini-fridge stocked with drinks and snacks for sale.
The private-plane man ultimately backs off in a display of major, unmotivated noblesse oblige.
The dictator has been wont to find convenient excuses for heightening tensions with America just as they have begun to lessen.In 1996, when relations between the two countries seemed the least icy in years, Cuban fighter jets shot down two unarmed planes manned by Cuban exiles.
That day two planes, manned by four pilots from the Florida-based organization Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR), were shot down by Cuban armed forces after having violated Cuban airspace 25 times in 20 months[3].
On the plane, the man in front of me tapped his headphones.
When the teenagers, from a Bible school in Oregon, left to board their plane, one man came up and shook his hand.
When they boarded the Virgin Atlantic plane, a man in a nearby seat, who was handcuffed to the seats and had security guards at either side and one leaning over the seats in front, was screaming.
