Hit by blackouts, Cuba’s tourism industry now braces for Trump
Major tour operator is directing its clients to the beaches of other nations rather than the supporting Cuba’s tourism industry
In a statement, Lessner Gómez, director of the Cuban Tourism Board in Toronto, stated, “We want Canadians to understand that tourism is a top priority for the economy.” “To provide better services, uninterrupted supplies, a better airport experience, and more and new car rentals, the Ministry of Tourism has been getting ready for the winter season.”
Few can dispute that these have been incredibly challenging months for the island, even as Cuba’s tourism bureau attempts to allay concerns about the severity of the power outages. In a hectic Atlantic hurricane season where stronger and more frequent storms are the new norm, Hurricane Rafael was just the most recent storm to strike Cuba.
Severe weather is a problem throughout the Caribbean, of course. However, there are additional issues for Cuba.
The already difficult situation for Cubans could get much more complicated with Donald Trump’s reelection to the W.H.
According to former Cuban diplomat Jesús Arboleya, “this is probably the hardest moment in the Cuban Revolution.”
“Those segments of the Cuban American right that have essentially thrived on anti-Castro policies since their inception have been given control of US policy toward Cuba by Donald Trump.”
Marco Rubio, a US Senator from Florida, is the most prominent of them, Mr. Arboleya continues. He is a Cuban American who has long criticized Havana’s communist regime.
His grandpa escaped the Castro-led shift to communism on the island, but his parents, who were Cubans, immigrated to the United States in 1956, three years before Fidel Castro took power.
“The prospect of another Donald Trump administration appalled people. Rafael Hernández, a Cuban political analyst and publisher of Temas magazine, says, “It spells real trouble.”
Cuba’s tourism industry
He contends that the US’s current approach to Cuba is “somewhat schizophrenic.”
On the one hand, the State Department promotes economic reforms in Cuba and helps the tourism private sector.
However, it appears that the Senate and Congress are halting any progress on those improvements.
A former diplomat Jesús Arboleya claims that the “hardest moment” of the Cuban Revolution is currently upon us.
However, it is anticipated that a future Secretary of State Rubio will unify US policy toward Cuba around a single principle,
Increasing the already severe sanctions to put the island under the most pressure.
Cubans worry that this would result in the closing of the US Embassy in Havana, which was formally reopened in 2015.
Cuban tourism hasn’t fully recovered from the twin blow that followed, though. Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak sending the industry into a tailspin, the Trump Administration first reversed President Obama’s engagement initiatives.
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