BEFORE INVESTING IN CUBA, ASK WHY…

…have people of all walks of life been trying desperately for many years to leave that country on inner-tube rafts and other unbelievable means, where thousands have perished as three did in May of 1997, and survivors have expressed that "they would rather die in the ocean than continue living in Cuba"?

…for 38 years there has only been on political party and one ruler, who has expressed that multi-party elections are garbage, and that he will not make any political opening for other parties?

…in spite of having a blessed soil, all food, which was once abundant, has been rationed since 1962 –including sugar—and now its people are starving, while the privileged elite does not have to endure these hardships?

…since the demise of the Soviet bloc and the end of its subsidy, which was several times greater than that of the Marshall Plan for Europe after World War II, have the standards of living regressed below 19th century levels?

…is Mr. Castro opening the economic doors to foreign investment while he forbids Cubans from fully exercising their private initiative, since they cannot hire labor or develop businesses of their choice, and is now even trying to close the recently permitted small family businesses that have prospered like the paladares (in-home restaurants)?

…the totalitarian regime now treats its people as indentured servants to be hired out to foreigners, who pay the government in dollars while Cuban laborers are paid in worthless pesos?

…the people cannot enjoy the beauty and the resorts of their land since they cannot stay in the hotels which are for foreign tourists only, even if they had the dollars necessary to stay there, thus enduring a special type of apartheid?

…prostitution, indirectly sponsored by the government, has reached incredible levels, to the point that slick, colorful pamphlets offering the "services" of "beautiful Cuban women" have been distributed in Europe, and even Cuban brothers and fathers have resorted to being intermediaries for their women?

…the people cannot enjoy the same medical services as the foreigners who come for splendid treatment, while the natives are lacking even a simple aspirin, and yet the country is spending countless millions in biotechnology for export?

…young people are discriminated and repressed at the educational level, where the "political integration" of themselves and their parents is part of their academic record, and many careers are closed to those lacking that "integration," and even students are forced to do "voluntary" labor in the agricultural fields?

…the population has resorted, as a form of escapism, to widespread alcoholism and suicide because they cannot see any alternative to the day-to-day hell of the totalitarian system they are enduring?

…in spite of the claim by Castro, as he first struggled to gain power, that he would restore democracy and freedom, all political parties were abolished as well as the free press, the trade unions, and independent professional organizations, and thousands have been executed while hundreds of thousands have been in the Cuban gulag, and the human rights of all the people are violated all the time, as the UN Human Rights Commission has condemned for the last 7 years?

These are some questions that any person who may be considering investing in Cuba at the present time should direct to Cuban government officials so they can make a more informed decision…

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