Cuba’s communist dictatorship continues to look for new ways to generate income while Fidel Castro’s socialist revolution continues its 65-year-long destruction of the Cuban economy. Unable to produce anything of value other than slave labor and tourism, the Castro regime is now opening VIP lounges at airports where foreign travelers can relax in luxury as long as they pay for it in cash.
Amid Cuba’s economic crisis, the Cuban government is trying to entice travelers to spend dollars and other foreign currencies at its international airports.
A recent report on state television details the creation of new VIP lounges at airports intended to offer an exclusive service to travelers. The purpose of these lounges is to make the passengers’ stay more pleasant while they wait to board their flight, as long as they have cash to pay for the “courtesy.”
VIP lounges
The television report highlighted the “new areas that increase the flow of freely convertible currency in the country,” referring to the recently inaugurated lounges at the Varadero International Airport.
In a statement, the president of the Cuban Civil Aviation Corporation, Joel Beltrán Arches, explains that there has been an increase in passenger demand for VIP lounges. He did not attribute the creation of new lounges to governmental interest, rather to the needs of travelers.
“What is imposing the need for these expansions is the demand from tourists who visit our facilities,” said the executive.
Because nothing says socialism better than a VIP lounge that is accessible only to those who are wealthy enough to pay for it. ¡Viva la revolucion!
Repression and maintaining control cost money, so the regime will do whatever it can to get it. To them this a no-brainer, and they couldn’t care less how bad it looks. The money, of course, is NOT for “the people.”
That’s the VIP lounge? Oh Lord, everything in Cuba is so low class. That looks like a cheap airport in the USA [I’m thinking of LaGuardia Airport in NYC that sucks]. There’s nothing VIP looking about that, but that just goes to show you how third-world Cuba has become where even the best is substandard. A VIP lounge is supposed to be relaxing with plenty of elbow room. The colors are supposed to be muted, etc.. That room is cluttered. I would be anything but relaxed there, but I guess that the alternative where the average person goes is even worse as in hellish.