If funding the brutally oppressive Castro dictatorship by vacationing in one of its apartheid resorts is not enough to convince you to scratch Cuba off your vacation list, here are three self-interested reasons you should.
Via the Center for a FREE Cuba:
Three self-interested reasons to reconsider vacationing in Cuba
The Cuban military runs the tourism industry in Cuba, and tourism literally assists the apparatus that represses not only Cubans, and Venezuelans, but seeks to subvert democracies across the hemisphere. This does not prevent large numbers of tourists from traveling to the island, and spending their money.
Below are three self-interested reasons to reconsider vacationing in Cuba:
1) When you suffer a heart attack at a hotel resort there is no doctor on staff, and it takes hours for emergency services to arrive to take the body away.
2) $10,000 fee to send the body back to Canada, and the wrong body is sent.
3) State-owned company CIMEX, which operates some MLC (Freely Convertible Currency) stores in Cuba, sells expired products to the public.
Eating expired food products can lead to food poisoning, and exposure to dangerous bacteria. These poor practices have been going on for years.
James and Kathryn Longhurst booked their dream honeymoon to Cuba in 2017 for a two-week all-inclusive getaway in Paradisus Rio de Oro in Holguin, Guardalavaca that cost the newlywed couple $6,235. Three days in, Mr Longhurst fell so ill his tongue turned black. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was given injections and put on IV drips. Returned home and continued to feel ill. They are now suing Thomas Cook travel agency. Mrs. Longhurst also became ill. The newlyweds cited “filthy conditions” as the cause of the illness observing in a March 23rd article in The Sun that “dining restaurants were poorly kept with food not “covered properly”, “insects and birds” flying around the buffet area, staff not wearing gloves while handling food and the same utensils used for different dishes.”
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