American leftists love to fantasize and wear trendy T-shirts about Cuba, the Castro brothers, and communism, and how wonderful it all is. There are some startling stories out of Cuba this weekend that strip all petals from that idealist Marxist rose. Is there a connection to California?
Fausta’s blog has two updates from the failed Marxist island, one of which causes me great alarm about something that has just occurred here in the San Francisco bay area, that may “tie in” to the Cuban sex tourism business.
First: There is much discussion why Venezuelan strong-man Hugo Chavez chose to have his mysterious “pelvic” surgery in Cuba instead of in his own nation, and why his recovery is taking so long, and how much he is governing his very troubled economy from……afar. Very odd.
Second: A very inconvenient fact that anti-capitalists in America will ignore: Dictator Fidel’s daughter, Mariela, is now expanding the Cuban “sex tourism” industry:
“In a Communist country, with sex tourism, and where your children belong to the state, the dictator’s daughter talks about the latest plan (h/t Gates of Vienna),
Cuba embraces Dutch-style sex education
Cuba can learn a thing or two from Dutch-styled sex education. That’s the view of Mariele Castro Espín, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro, espoused in an interview with Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
Mariela Castro is director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education, a government-funded body, whose aim is the development of the development of a culture of sexuality that is “full, pleasurable and responsible, as well as to promote the full exercise of sexual rights.” She will travel to the Netherlands in the near future to for discussions with institutions and government bodies related to sex education.”
Before you read more than ever wanted to know about Cuban sex tourism below, review my story from last week, in which I was trying to figure out what government agency, vote, or fiat had facilitated new, direct flights from Oakland, California airport to Havana. The only thing that is obvious, is that the flights were requested by communist-Castro-loving Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D- but you could guess that.)
Oakland, California’s economy is an example of 40 years of failed liberal, Democrat corruptocracy. The city is mired in debt, and laying off teachers and cops, while ignoring meaningful pension reform.
Oakland has been most notable in recent months for what I call the “astro-turf- “riots-of-convenience.” Hordes of angry black people who never knew Oscar Grant, have “expressed their sympathy” for his accidental shooting by a transit cop by busting up the downtown stores a several times and stealing Nikes. It’s so bad that merchants are hiring their own cops. [read about the Oakland riots here.]
Also, the Oakland Public Schools recently made national news when they began a new program teaching “genderless sex education” to K-6 students: Contractors came in with books, videos and demonstrations to teach kids that you can choose to be a boy, or a girl or neither and be something else tomorrow. The drop-out rate in Oakland public schools is 40%, but the LGBT community demands class time to teach children about anal sex and confusing their genders.
Bottom line is Oakland, California is a city devolved into social, moral, economic chaos. Idealogues and crooks are in charge, and all of them are Democrats.
So is it any surprise that prostitution, especially child prostitution, is a HUGE problem in Oakland, California?
Read the article below to learn that young Afro-Cuban boys and girls are the most-requested items in the Cuban sex industry “buffet.” We have no way of knowing, and no one in the bay area seems to be asking Congresswoman Lee the hard questions about who will be on these direct flights between Oakland and Cuba, or why, and how much screening or security will be required of passengers. Trust me, there is NO GOOD REASON why a Marxist-sympathizer like Rep. Lee has organized these flights. The fact that Castro’s daughter is travelling the world to pimp her pimps and Cuban children should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks a communistic economy works.
Cuba is enslaving its children to pay the bills. Is it also going to tap into Oakland, California’s “talent pool” of young needy blacks from broken families? Oakland police, if any are left to investigate……do we have a problem?
More links to information on Cuban sex tourism, including why President Bush restricted travel to Cuba to curtail the sex slavery industry.
Read all of it here. Here is an excerpt. It is sickening:
“Tourism is Cuba’s most important moneymaker, generating almost $2 billion last year. In Spain alone, twenty flights leave for Havana every week, carrying to the Caribbean island a yearly total of some 200,000 single male tourists, all in search of cut-price sex. (Tunku Varadarajan, “Time-bomb that Flies in From Havana,” The Times, July 10, 1996. Lexis-Nexis document.)
Most tourists come from Canada, Spain and Italy. Tourism has recently replaced sugar as the single most important export in the economy. Much of this tourism, however, centers on travel for sex. Foreign tour companies use code words such as “Cuba Amor” to advertise package tours. At least one Spanish travel company offers a catalogue of Cuban women who would serve as companions during a tourist’s stay. (Adams, p. 1A).
By 1995 the Italian travel magazine Viaggiare recognized Cuba as the “paradise of sexual tourism,” awarding it five stars for its “general erotic level.” According to the magazine, Cuba beat out such competitors as Brazil and Thailand. (Adams, p. 1A; Dalia Acosta, Culture Tourism: Cuba Brushes up its Tourist Image, Interpress Service, Sept. 19, 1997. Lexis-Nexis).
Some reports suggest girls will sell sex acts for less than $10 and sometimes for as little as $3. Inexperienced women and girls can be persuaded and/or tricked into spending a whole night with a client for the cost of a meal, a few drinks or small gift. “Habitual sex tourists state that it costs them less to spend two weeks indulging themselves in Cuba than it does in other centers of sex tourism, such as the Philippines and Thailand. (O’Connell Davidson, p.41).
Sex tourism is often a means to satisfy very specific sexual preferences. Many men choose to travel to particular destinations because they know that it is possible to pursue their tastes more cheaply and safely. Pedophiles are an obvious example of this type of sex tourist, but more common are men who have a preference for experiencing multiple, anonymous sexual encounters with teenagers and women in their early 20s.
Sexual access to girls between the ages of 14 and 16 is not difficult to attain, and girls between the ages of 16 and 18 are very accessible. More disturbing still, such tourists are paying older Cuban women and men, often prostitutes themselves, to procure 14 and 15-year old boys and girls for them.
Sex tourists are also frequently drawn to Cuba because of the prospect of exotic encounters that contain a racial component. This is especially the case for those consumers who find it difficult to satisfy racialized fantasies at home.
As is the case elsewhere in Latin America, sex tourists view Cuban women as caliente–hot. In addition Davidson reports than many sex tourists are either openly racist and/or fascinated with Black sexuality, which they imagine to be untamed and uninhibited. (O’Connell Davidson, p. 46) Interestingly, the government of Cuba uses racial stereotypes “showcasing ‘traditional’ Afro-Cuban religious rituals and art, ‘traditional’ Afro-Cuban music, and of course, Afro-Cuban women (Fusco, p. 67). in conjunction with other images of Cuba as tropical, exotic and full of scantily clad native women.
These same stereotypes carry over to the sex tourism industry and feed into the sexual fantasies of the male tourist. As Davidson notes, many more jineteras are Afro-Cuban as opposed to mixed race or white. (O’Connell Davidson, p. 45. See also Fusco, p. 64).
The explosive growth of sex tourism in Cuba in the 1990s has coincided with the island becoming a major destination for international tourists. The Cuban government began to emphasize foreign tourism as a development tool in the 1980s, in part as a response to a stagnant economy. (Espino, p. 153; 158). Said one foreign diplomat of the boom in prostitution, “the decline and fall of Cuba’s economy and the turn to attracting foreigners has made it inevitable. The only way for most of these kids to survive is to sell themselves. (Freed, p 1).”
Child prostitution in Oakland, CA
Child prostitution in Cuba in Spanish
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