An Elitist Class of Their Own

at 1:32 AM Sunday, July 31, 2011

BY: THE HILL

A Canadian tourism company (Standard Feather International, SFI) has announced that the Castro regime will allow it to hold a perpetual lease on a beach property in the Holguin province, in order to build a luxurious golf community and country club.

Moreover, it will allow its foreign residents to import their vehicles and provide "exclusive" food products for their consumption (including home delivery).

(Maybe Treasury will even issue one of those luxury "people-to-people" licenses).

Of course, all of this is denied (and strictly off-limits) to the Cuban people -- except for the Castro clan.

On a tangential note -- and to add insult to injury -- a new pictorial book, Habana Libre, explores the life of privilege and luxury of the Castros' offspring -- whom the author nauseatingly refers to as "very elegant and sophisticated and talented people."

They follow in the same "exclusive" tradition of other tyrannical heirs, including Uday and Qusay Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, Saif Gaddafi and Kim Jong Un.

As the recently-exiled offspring of another privileged Castro family ally, J.J. Almeida, describes them (H/T Penultimos Dias):

"Grand-daddy's kids who live in a paralyzed society, sniff cocaine in the Red Room of the Capri (Hotel), hook up with stylish prostitutes and remain paralyzed in a revolutionary fair that I wouldn't label as corruption, but simple opportunism."

So much for social justice.