From our Bureau of Twenty-First Century Neocolonialism with some assistance from our Bureau of Shots to the Arm of Failing Apartheid Tourism Hot Spots
Fat cats at Castro, Inc.’s Ministry of Tourism are doing a happy dance this week. The Russians are coming. Now that Czar Vlad the Invader owns the island, these fat cats are expecting hordes of Russian tourists to fill up all those empty apartheid hotel rooms Castro, Inc. has been building while the rest of the island crumbles and its people starve.
Will we soon begin to see news stories about disappointed Russian tourists? Will they replace Canadians in the headlines? Stay tuned . . . and don’t miss the next post, which will be about other kinds of Russian gifts to Castrogonia.
From Sala Elbalad
Havana, the Cuban capital, received the first Russian flight in three years on Sunday, marking the resumption of air travel between the two nations after a pandemic-induced hiatus.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, the airline “Rossiya,” a subsidiary of the “Aeroflot” group, operated a direct flight between the two capitals for the first time since 2020 when both Russia and Cuba suspended air travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The flight carried more than 300 passengers.
The Russian airline will now regularly operate two flights per week to Cuba, strengthening the aviation links between the two countries.
Well, if a massive Russian tourist invasion doesn’t materialize, it won’t be because Russians have any shame over how much they’ve already screwed Cuba over. Simply, they have better options.
There is, of course, only one person who could play Putin in a movie: Sean Penn.