Havana Ball North American Philanthropy in Culture Clash

Mr. Plimsoll joins a North-American 'Christian' philanthropic caravan that converges upon San Diego to deliver used computers to Cuba. The two hundred 'Caravanistas' from North America each donated computers or paid around $1000 to go to Cuba to help end the trade embargo sanctions and accusations about Cuba's Human Rights violations. The leadership advertises their showdown with the Feds in the name of Civil Disobedience. Of course the Feds win and take away all the computers. The 'Caravanistas' hear words of encouragement- to sit it out in a hunger strike until they get the computers back. This doesn't sit well with everyone especially not with the outspoken Mark Plimsoll. In this first-person account of Mark Plimsoll's BILINGUAL participation on the tour he adroitly describes the comedic confrontations with police the FBI professional protesters star-crossed lovers and U.S. Customs agents- and in Cuba the sexual magnetism between people with money and people without.