Like Jamaica is just a puppet state that the US operate on behalf of its bourgeois vacationers, right?

  • jabrd [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    I did say tourist destinations. Cuba might be a great place to take a trip but it isn’t a resort country

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Cuba is a super popular tourist destination with tons of resorts. Cuba still has a huge tourism industry. I know a shit load of people who went there and stayed at resorts.

      • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah I think it always had some tourism after the rev, but they really allowed it to increase after the fall of the USSR.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Lost a huge trade partner and tourism was always an easy way to bring in money, makes sense.

    • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Tourism is one of the island's primary ways of bringing in foreign revenue and US Dollars. It's definitely a tourist island.

    • Gothouse [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Used to be, before the Revolution. Castro brought it to a screeching halt, closed the casinos, freed the prostitutes and spread the wealth.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        No, it's still a tourist destination. Just not mob run and Americans can't go. It's a very common vacation place for Canadians. There are plenty of resorts and some are very high luxury.