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Cuba's appeal is evident as the plane descends on Havana and a vista of stunning countryside and sweeping beaches that cover the longest coastline in the Caribbean fills the window.

The article, premised on the sentence above is deceptive and dishonest.

Sadly, Cuba's biggest attraction is its sex trade.

Fidel doesn't care that he prostitutes Cuba's women, that he is El Pimpo de Cuba.

I stayed at one of those beautiful Melia hotels when I was in Cuba a couple of years ago, and I certainly didn´t pay the outrageous price of $10 for a cocktail. I didn´t find cocktail prices over the top or out of line; therefore, I really can’t remember how much a cocktail cost because an outrageious price would stuck with me in my memory bank. Maybe that’s the price the author of this article paid for a drink at a Cabaret but not at a hotel bar.

Computer usage at the hotel was expensive. $5 for the fist 15 minutes, $10 for 30 minutes, etc.

A phone call home was also expensive. It was $4 a minute (to Central America). I had only meant to call and say I had arrive OK. When I got my tab, I had run up a $12 bill. Talk isn’t cheap.

Spam? I wouldn’t accept Spam if it were given to me free. In fact, there isn’t enough money to pay me to accept that awful stuff.

Cuba by the way is extremely interesting. I came away with a lot of good memories. I hope to return again this year.

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.***