To promote a nonviolent transition to a Cuba that respects human rights, political and economic freedoms, and the rule of law.
Three self-interested reasons to reconsider vacationing in Cuba
Two woman walking along the streets of a city in Cuba. Source: Taymaz Valley from Ottawa, Canada
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."
In 2016, Ted Jackson, 63, was staying with his wife Susan at the Hotel Playa Pesquero on the north coast of Cuba when they both started to suffer stomach cramps. He was seen by a doctor and then taken to a surgery but died due to severe dehydration and stomach inflammation.
Communist Cuba also has a crime issue that is comparable to other countries in Latin America, but it has often been kept out of the news.
Antoinette Traboulsi, a 52-year-old mother of four from Montreal who worked in a hospital, was discovered dead and buried on a beach in Cubawhile on vacation. Her family is battling to get her body back home as well.
On April 20, 2024 he arrived in the United States after being taken in shackles from his arbitrary detention in Santiago de Cuba, on a long journey across the island to Villa Marista (State Security headquarters) in Havana, Cuba. Tonight Rufina gave an update over Facebook on her father's condition.
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