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Tourists have vanished from Old Havana, but dictatorship keeps building more hotels

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From our Bureau of Dark Moments in the History of Apartheid Tourism with some assistance from our Bureau of Socialist Business Savvy

Tourists are staying away from Havana. Streets, historic buildings, shops, bars, and restaurants that once crawled with flocks of tourists are now largely empty. Yet, Castro, Inc. keeps building more luxury hotels in central Havana. Expect some kind of implosion soon. This economic madness is unsustainable. It’s quite obvious that Castro, Inc.’s apartheid tourism gambling habit is not paying off.

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Cuban dictatorship slowly murders counterintelligence freedom fighter Ernesto Borges

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From our Bureau of Socialist Tolerance, Compassion, and Social Justice with some assistance from our Bureau of Preferred Means of Execution in Socialist Jails

His name doesn’t appear in the news often. Yet, his plight deserves urgent attention. Ernesto Borges Perez was imprisoned 26 years ago when he was only 32 years old. Castro, Inc. sentenced him to 30 years in prison for his work in counterintelligence for the U.S. Borges has been subjected to constant abuse and total neglect., including 10 years in solitary confinement.

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May 19, 1895: Cuba’s founding father Jose Martí is killed in a battle for liberation from Spain

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As a child growing up in a Cuban American home, I heard countless stories of Jose Martí’s courage, read his writings and poetry, and learned of his selfless commitment to freedom in Cuba. I saw many variations of the image above, of José Martí being shot and killed by Spanish troops as he rode his white horse into battle. Legend has it he looked up into the sun right before he died, his last act of defiance against a tyrannical and murderous colonial master.

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Reports from Cuba: The ‘war between the people and private taxi drivers’ promoted by the Cuban government

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Jorge Enrique Rodriguez writes from Havana via Diario de Cuba:

The ‘war between the people and private taxi drivers’ promoted by the Cuban Government

Cubans waiting for a bus at a stop in Havana.

A seller of jewelry and kitchenware at a small stand just below the bridge at Avenida 100 and Boyeros, Eliany Hidalgo is thinking of renting another space near her home. She has to invest her profits, already meager in recent times due to the severe economic crisis that is affecting ordinary Cubans, to get to her stand and back, “because the boteros (private taxi drivers) have more than doubled their prices in just one year.”

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17,870 Cubans entered U.S. in past month; 144,378 in past seven months; 533,000 in past two years

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From our Bureau of Weaponized Migration with some assistance from our Bureau of Countries Without Borders and our Bureau of New Yo-Yos and Remittance Senders

The exodus continues. Castro, Inc. is undoubtedly happy to see so many new Yo-Yos and remittance senders joining the diaspora. The numbers are staggering. In the past two years alone, over HALF A MILLION Cubans have entered the U.S.

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