State of Havami (UPDATED)

Photo courtesy of Cuaderno de Cuba

You just have to laugh at this picture. Forget about the fact that it will never happen, nor do we want it to happen. Let's just take this moment to find the humor in this.

First, the guy looks dead serious. Perhaps he would run for governor of the Miami province.

Second, and what really made me laugh, is the attention to detail. If you look very closely, it appears that our future governor included the southern half of Broward County in Havami.

Imagine the reaction from Broward folks. It's almost worth the effort to annex Cuba, isn't it?!

H/T: El Confeti

UPDATE 8/7/06: Palm Beach Post reporter Liz Balmaseda has this to say about Havami:

Havami stretches from Cuba into South Florida. You think it must be a joke, but then the owners show you their proposal to Congress for the annexation of Cuba.

"I mean, how do you go back to Cuba now?" says Cuban-born, New York-raised owner Jackie Sarracino, 41, whose husband Maximo, 45, came up with the Havami idea.

Here's their reasoning:

You realize they're dead serious. They want to bring back the Platt Amendment. Cubans, they insist, are simply too corruptible for sovereignty.

"We believe the Anglo laws are the only ones that can bring order to Cuba," she says. "We don't believe we are as effective at governing ourselves."

Interesting.

Read the rest of Balmaseda's article here.

H/T: Rick