Ironically Cuba used to be quite popular with Western entertainment companies who provided great beaches, plenty of prostitutes, and ample gambling opportunities to foreign tourists.
For nearly 30 years the LEFT used to defend Castro by noting that he had made the island much less dependent on tourism, and besides he had tossed out the Mob, and eliminated prostitution and gambling.
The LEFT has been remarkably silent as Castro has reinstituted prostitution and gambling.
As if to show how deeply indebted he is to these institutions, he put everything on the line to bring back the young son of one of his female acquisition specialists!
You know, Baptista would not have done that.