02-06-2008, 01:05 PM
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Pissing in the cornflakes
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Originally Posted by pai mei
I can say they are 50 years ahead of the rest of the world, and one day they will thank Castro for not letting them be "capitalists" like the people in Haiti who eat dirt, while foreign companies grow crops for ethanol for export
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Mind if we make a bet about that?
The term tourist apartheid was coined in the early 1990s after Cuba first opened up to foreign tourists (q.v. tourism in Cuba).[1][2] The term describes the policy in Cuba, by which premiere resorts and the ability to purchase luxury goods at special tourist stores are offered exclusively to tourists.[3][4] A 1999 Human Rights Watch report stated [5] that "Cuban nationals are routinely barred from enjoying amenities open to foreigners ... the best hotels, resorts, beaches, and restaurants are off limits to most Cubans, as are certain government health institutions," and contrasts this practice with the Constitution of Cuba, which explicitly bars discrimination as contrary to human rights in Cuba.
Cuban president Fidel Castro described Cuba's tourism policies as an economic necessity and such a denomination as a "perfidious, perverse, cynical" campaign to present the current situation as "a case of discrimination."[6]
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