Yankee Doodle Castro***Havana recently topped Bangkok as "child-sex capital of the world." Consider the human tragedy, the desperation of poor people driven to such things in such numbers, and after 43 years of "liberation" and "national dignity." 18,000 riddled by firing squads. Half a million incarcerated. 50,000 drowned or ripped apart by sharks in the Florida Straits. Thousands more slaughtered in Africa for Moscow. Two million exiled. And we wind up with a nation that in 1959 had a higher living standard than Belgium or Italy, had a lower infant mortality rate than France, had net immigration, as child prostitution capital of the world. ***
Castro takes U.S. dollars to shore up his glorious revolution and to export anti-Americanism abroad. The people are kept away from the hotels, those jobs go to loyal communists, like Elian's father.
Tyrannies need money like everyone else. They need lots of minions to do their dirty work. A Castro, a Hitler, a Saddam, cannot tyranize a whole country. They need lots of helpers to do their evil deeds and keep the population under control. These people have to be well rewarded otherwise the regime colapses. Without money these people cannot be kept happy. It is no coincidence that when the Soviet Union fell, they were unable to even pay their soldiers. Any money going to such a regime will first be used to reward the oppressors, not the oppressed.