From Capital Hill Cubans:
Looking Out the Restaurant Window
From ABC News:
At the rooftop pool of Havana's Hotel Saratoga, where rates run $200 and up and two-story suites have humidors and marble bathrooms, young Brits order mojitos. On the street below, near crumbling apartment buildings of Old Havana, a boy peers through the hotel restaurant's window and stretches a hand toward patrons nibbling delicacies unavailable to the average rice-and-beans-eating Cuban, miming hunger.
In the 50th anniversary year of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro into power, tourism is the No. 1 moneymaker, while locals might subsist on $20 a month and omnipresent food rationing.
In other words, while the Castro regime owns and operates the island's tourism industry, it condemns its people to subservience, humiliation, shortages and repression -- all of this to maintain absolute, dictatorial control.
U.S. tourists should not contribute to this repression until the Castro regime ends its monopoly over the island's tourism industry and allows the Cuban people to partake in the fruits of their labor.
Or, at the very least, until Cubans are allowed to look out the restaurant window from the inside, instead of being forced to observe from the outside.
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