Por: Capitol Hill Cubans
Once again, the Castro regime is fiendishly eyeing the hard-currency of foreign tourists.
Last week, it issued new land-lease rules for foreign investors to build golf courses for foreigners.
This week, it's issuing rules for foreign investors to build marinas for foreigners.
Note the pattern. Hint: it's all "for foreigners."
According to Sail-World USA:
Cruising sailors are being sought as part of Cuba's push to increase its tourism income. New rules governing the building of marinas by foreign investors promise an upgrade to the available facilities along the coastline of the island country.
Yet, there are still people with the audacity to argue that the Castro regime really doesn't want tourism travel restrictions lifted, arguing that Americans would somehow flood the island with "democratic ideals."
The only thing these new apartheid facilities would provide the Cuban people is more repression.
As we recently stressed in The Hill:
Cuban pro-democracy activists don't need American fanny-packers and spring breakers to teach them democratic ideals. As a matter of fact, they can probably teach the Chamber [of Commerce], and most of us, a thing or two about the importance of freedom and democracy -- not to mention the high cost it entails.
They don't need sailors or golfers either.
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