That's one way yes.
I'm sure you might be able to think of others if you tried.
Are you also suggesting that the only workers in Cuba at hotels and other establishments are government employees?
While it might be true that this is technically correct in that Cuba controls everything, a hotel or restaraunt is not a government agency. Cuba can't enforce a prohibition on the flow of dollars from Americans to Cuban citizens and fankly I find it a bit hillarious that you are suggesting that all of the regular Cuban citizens are secreted away to some safe place whenever tourists arrive.
Are you also suggesting that the only workers in Cuba at hotels and other establishments are government employees?
While it might be true that this is technically correct in that Cuba controls everything, a hotel or restaraunt is not a government agency. Cuba can't enforce a prohibition on the flow of dollars from Americans to Cuban citizens and fankly I find it a bit hillarious that you are suggesting that all of the regular Cuban citizens are secreted away to some safe place whenever tourists arrive.
Sorry! I thought you knew some facts about Cuba. I was certainly mistaken.
In Cuba, the executive, the judicial and the legislative power are all concentrated in Fidel Castro. Every Cuban is an employee of Fidel Castro, even those working for foreign enterprises. In fact, in order to invest in Cuba those foreign businessmen must give Castro major shareholder control of the company and must hire the workers from a Castro’s government dependency. Castro receives the salary of each worker in dollars, but pays the worker in Cuban pesos. The average salary earned is $400 dollars a month and Castro pays the worker 400 Cuban worthless pesos. The exchange rate is 22 pesos to the dollar, which means that each worker receives $18 dollars and Castro keeps for himself $382.00. In other words, the foreign companies acquiesces to bribe Castro to the tune of 95% of the salary of each worker they employ, something outrageous and illegal condemned by international labor laws.
Fankly she's right. :-)
It isn't necessary to secrete people away from where they aren't permitted to be in the first place. Tourists stay in/near the tourist resorts, which are Off Limits to ordinary Cuban citizens. Trespassing is punished a tad more harshly there than here, in case you were wondering.
In theory, tourists are free to visit to other parts of the island. But transportation is unreliable at best and government agents follow you when you stray off the Potemkin village. Their job is not to intimidate you, but any Cubans who might talk to you. Moreover, the non-tourist areas tend to resemble Dante's Inferno, but without the bright red paint (shortages). Who wants to spend their vacation seeing squalor, misery and fear when you can relax on the white sandy beach sipping Chateau Lafite and nibbling on pate de foix gras with other pampered progressive plutocrats in what purports to be a classless society?