Not too much contact with tourists for the Cubas

[fernando]

By VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer

HAVANA - Cuba's tourism ministry told its workers to keep their mingling with foreigners to a minimum, prohibiting everything from accepting personal gifts to attending events in the homes or embassies of foreigners without written permission.

Rest of the article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ca/cuba_tourism (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&ncid=734&e=8&u=/ap/20050224/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_tourism)

[Colombia]

Understandle. Don't want the Cuban people to be getting capitalistic ideals now.

[Iepilei]

So yes, repression is the best way to keep someone away from something. Just like drugs laws.

[fernando]

@Iepilei: Hmm...funny since smoking pot in The Netherlands is sort of legal and our problem with marijhuana seems to be less than in lets say the US where there are very strict laws against it.

Do you think that the Cuban government is doing a good thing by enforcing their people not to have contact with tourists?

[Iepilei]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2005, 02:01 PM
@Iepilei: Hmm...funny since smoking pot in The Netherlands is sort of legal and our problem with marijhuana seems to be less than in lets say the US where there are very strict laws against it.

Do you think that the Cuban government is doing a good thing by enforcing their people not to have contact with tourists?
I was being sarcastic. Drug laws, just like abstinence programs, don't keep people away. More often than not, they draw more people than would normally consider it in the first place.

"Hey, let's tell a bunch of middle-school kids what weed is, where it grows, how to find it, and what it does to you, and tell them to stay away from it!"

Works everytime.

[Commie Girl]

This is very understandable....

[bolshevik butcher]

This' censorship. i've always had my fear of this hapeening in cuba, if this was the U$ everyone would be up in arms that was justifying it now.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

if this was the U$ everyone would be up in arms that was justifying it now.

I did not understand this sentence.

Care to explain?

[FeArANDLoAtHiNg]

As far as I knew, Cuba always had this stance. Unfortunately, it is censorship, but can you really blame Castro, as the United States is already trying to prepare Cuba for a post-Castro era, where they hope to install capitalism? Some regulation is needed to prevent this.

[Thomas]

Cuba has had to make a few sacrifices to survive, such as Tourism. And now censorhip, but it isn't like they've had massive rights taken away, the tourist part of Cuba is separate to the rest of Cuba, stopping any situations occuring and any Cubans learning capitalist mindsets.

[Severian]

This could be wrong...either from a wrong motive - protecting Cubans from "foreign contamination" or from a wrong method of trying to prevent the growth of privilege among tourism workers.

Then again...there could be a lot Associated Press is leaving out here.

For example: don't accept gifts from tourists? Don't go to their homes? Could be in part an anti-prostitution measure.

I haven't been able to find anything on these new regulations from any other source, so I'm reserving judgment for now.

[Iepilei]

I'm sorry, but I think this and all other forms of "prohibition" do nothing more than fuel the desire to learn more about it.

Hell, tha'ts why I eventually ended up at socialist message boards. :lol:

[bolshevik butcher]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2005, 09:34 PM

if this was the U$ everyone would be up in arms that was justifying it now.

I did not understand this sentence.

Care to explain?
If the U$ was doing the same thing as this, then this websute would rightly be furious about it, why not the same for cuba?

[Raisa]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2005, 12:58 PM
Understandle. Don't want the Cuban people to be getting capitalistic ideals now.
Capitalist ideals. :lol: ha!

Maybe that, and maybe they dont want foreigners getting all in their buisness since Cuba has to worry about other countries governments trying to screw things up for them.

Its all a shame.

[Severian]

Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 25 2005, 08:48 AM
If the U$ was doing the same thing as this, then this websute would rightly be furious about it, why not the same for cuba?
Factually doubtful: do you really know what the U.S. government's guidelines for its employees say? It wouldn't surprise me if they were similar in some respects. Nobody's been up in arms about them, or even reported what they are.

And in principle wrong: why would somebody whose icon is a hammer and sickle, advocate taking the same attitude towards a capitalist government, and a workers' government? Sounds like fence-sitting in regards to the class struggle.

[Enragé]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2005, 12:58 PM
Understandle. Don't want the Cuban people to be getting capitalistic ideals now.
understandable? perhaps
desirable? hell no
would you want to live in a country were the government says what you can and cannot think, can and cannot do? Yes there is a risk of an influx of capitalist ideas in cuba, but you must trust in the people to know that capitalism is not a good idea, discuss people, disscus! Debate/discussion is the centre of every stable people's republic, thats also why we've never seen a stable one, or even a good one for that matter

[Ele'ill]

Agreed.

Congratulations on your posting rampage btw.
;)