"Tourism is the Culprit"
Jose Reyes 5/30/2005
The beauty of Cuba and all the escape
it can offer to a tourist is unfortunately the big problem there. If Cuba wasn't
so beautiful and warm, it would be free right now. The Europeans do not want
Cuba
to be free, so they can have their vacations there. Spain has taken Cuba 
back
from the Cuban people by providing economical assistance to the Castro regime
and building hundreds of Hotels,
they are the chief importers to the island. Tourism is the Culprit, the
tourist, especially the Europeans are the ones who want to own the
island. The
Europeans are not aware and really care little about the Cuban people, they have
only a few weeks to rest and are fixated more on the tropical atmosphere,
casinos and prostitution. I'm not saying all the tourist visit Cuba for that
specific reason, you also have the curious tourist, who like to explore the
island and study the countryside, they meet some poor people on their adventures
and strike up a conversation but exchanges of thoughts are frequently interrupted and terminated
by Castro's special police, the rule in Cuba is "Don't Mingle with the
Tourist". The Cuban people are simply prisoners of their own country.
Castro is worth about $550 Million now in 2005 and was worth $195 Million in
1993, he must be prospering with the tourism business, meanwhile the Cuban
people are starving. Castro's lame excuse is blaming the embargo of the United
States as to their misfortunes, why aren't the European countries involved with 
the embargo? The United States is acting in a rightful way, it's the European
countries that are promoting tourism and with the powerful aid of the internet, European vacationers can book a flight online to the beautiful island of
Cuba so they could eat like kings and queens while enjoying the warm climate
of the Caribbean. The European countries are being real hypocrites when dealing
with Cuba, they acknowledge all the criminal activity and all the human rights
violations when they are at home but forget all about it when they are walking
on the beautiful beaches of Cuba. I'm not saying that all the European people
think in this matter,
there's just a small minority, my point is directed more towards the stand, the
governments of countries like Spain, Russia, Italy, England, France, Germany and the rest
of Europe, take concerning the human rights violation that are taking place in
Cuba right now. While they are feeding the Castro regime with billions of
dollars yearly, they contradict themselves and take the same approach Castro
takes and blames the hardship of the Cuban people with the US embargo. These
Governments care less 
about all the injustices that are going on in
Cuba. By taking this stand, they are just fueling the fire and depriving
the poor Cuban people from enjoying the fruits of freedom. The Cuban people
are being treated like animals and the European Governments continue promoting
tourism, why don't these countries join the embargo? The Castro regime's main
objective is to promote a prostitution ring which runs rampant throughout these
hotels, could these European tourists be going to Cuba for sexual needs? I'm
sure that 75 percent of the tourist are there for that sole reason. What kind of
future do the Cuban people have especially the beautiful Cuban Woman? Tourism is
the culprit and the European governments are the problem.
