Exporting Freedom or Voyeurism?

at 9:58 AM Sunday, July 24, 2011


Myth: "The United States should immediately remove travel restrictions and allow Americans to act as ambassadors of freedom and American values to Cuba."

-- Letter to President Obama by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups.

Reality: "Outsiders have long been predicting Cuba's demise as a revolutionary socialist state. And there is undoubtedly a voyeuristic element in many tourists' motives for going there: see it before the wheels drop off."

-- U.K. Telegraph's travel expert, Nigel Richardson.