I challenge each and every one of you to do the same. Just a short note taking this political editorial by a travel editor apart.
Luis
Even if the 40-year-old U.S. embargo were lifted tomorrow, and American tourists and investors flooded in, I can't see how the economic situation would improve in time to help those aged beggars.
No, Ms. Watson, the US embargo it's not the cause of poverty in Cuba but their own corrupt, oppressive and tyrannical government. Cuba deals with most countries in the world. And as you indicate they get paid in dollars from tourists all over the world yet they live in poverty. What makes you think American tourists would have a different effect in Cuba than that of tourists from other countries have had to this day?
And there are tourists, lots of them -- they're just not us.
Right!! Has that helped Cubans get out of poverty? Hmmm, do you think the Cuban government has something to do with this pesky little fact? Isn't it true that all those dollars -- fairs and tips-- end up in the hands of the Cuban government since they are the ones who are in charge of the goods and their prices?
As tourism grows -- Cuba expects more than $2 billion in tourism revenues this year -- the economic gulf widens between those who can get tourist tips and those who can't.
Expect no change at all in Cuba, Ms Watson. No improvement whatsoever over the life of its people.
This means that Cuba's revolution is being corrupted from the bottom up, with greenbacks gnawing at it from underneath, the way warmer water helps soften ice on a Minnesota lake in spring.
Ms. Watson you just told us that Cuba expects more than $2billion in tourism revenues this year. It's not that the revolution that is being corrupted from the bottom up, it's the revolution which is a corruptive enterprise.
Whatever criticisms can be leveled at the Cuban government, it's hard to fault it on what it does deliver. Topping the list: free health care and free education through college. A recent international survey, in fact, rated Cuba's primary schools the best in Latin America.
LOL! Don't you just love it Luis when the socialists give us their usual cliché "free health care and free education?" Well, free health care doesn't matter if they don't have medicine available, even though the US sends medicine and food and other countries do the same. It doesn't matter if they can read when all they read is communist propaganda. As Mark Twain said, "The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man that can't read them."