http://carlosmiller.com/2009/04/25/and-in-todays-groundbreaking-news-from-the-miami-herald/ It's a First Amendment Right Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://carlosmiller.com/2009/04/25/and-in-todays-groundbreaking-news-from-the-miami-herald/#comment-10441 Henry Gomez Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:21:26 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/?p=6224#comment-10441 We've been saying it at Babalu for years. That's why all this talk about the travel restrictions being lifted is bullshit. The restrictions only create a moral deterrent and a bit of a financial deterrent (because it's not as cheap to travel to Cuba with the restrictions as it would be without). But the idea that American tourism is going to liberate Cuba is absurd. It hasn't yet and it won't. Just like Canadian, French, and Spanish tourism hasn't. It's a pipe dream. The regime falls when the international community says "enough!" But since that day will never come the only other way it will fall is when it finally just rots from the inside out. We’ve been saying it at Babalu for years. That’s why all this talk about the travel restrictions being lifted is bullshit. The restrictions only create a moral deterrent and a bit of a financial deterrent (because it’s not as cheap to travel to Cuba with the restrictions as it would be without). But the idea that American tourism is going to liberate Cuba is absurd. It hasn’t yet and it won’t. Just like Canadian, French, and Spanish tourism hasn’t. It’s a pipe dream. The regime falls when the international community says “enough!” But since that day will never come the only other way it will fall is when it finally just rots from the inside out.

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