One of our neighbors idealized Cuba and visited there a year ago on a tour. They thought they would find happy people playing domino’s in cafes and driving cool 50 ‘ s cars. Wrongo. We asked them what the he** they were thinking. It is a loser commie prison. They are very disillusioned and never discuss the trip.
A cheap holiday in other people’s misery.
The Sex Pistols had a song about it (and tourists going to East Germany).
Holidays In The Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyFoLn1QWV0
So did the Dead Kennedys
Holiday In Cambodia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6NOsluHYg
One of the ironies of the Cuban revolution, is that one of Castro’s most effective rhetorical devices, was to stoke nationalist resentment, about Westerners making prostitutes of Cuban women along the Malecon in Havana.
After decades of communist rule, prostitution for foreign tourists became an even greater share of GDP, and they were paid relatively much less (and there was a marked increase in prostitution of pre-pubescent children).
That he did. From the roaring gambling, boozy, nightclubbing mecca of Batista to a disease-ridden, poverty-stricken, desperate state where the wrong word could get you murdered in the night.
Yep. That's the standard communist "transformation" all right.
There is nothing to do or see in Cuba. The only reason you might go would be to visit family.
Good news about the tourism decline. I had no idea it was a child sex destination. So much evil on one little island.
Castro certainly transformed the society. For the worse! Sanders is such a f***ing idiot.
This is OK with the left. The left has no problem with the child sex thing, as long as the regime gives “free” healthcare. Don’t forget, that Cuba quaranteens aids patients. Locks them up. Sequesters them. Not a word about that in the media.
All of the Commie granola hippies who were itching to go have now been.
Boom, it’s over.
If I want to see 50’s cars, which I love, I’ll wait for a local car festival. We have them all the time.
For the Cigars and cheap whores ... once the fad surge was over and a cache was obtained and the STDs were realized the it all subsided.