http://ahoracuba.com/en/node/12 Comments for "Foreigners vs. Cuban citizens" en http://ahoracuba.com/en/node/12 <p>In the vast majority of the countries of the world, citizens have a series of privileges that many take for granted. In Cuba, some of these have become prohibitions. </p> <p>When I say ¨privileges¨ many think about things like "how can the law be bent" to favor the citizen, or perhaps of the knowledge of how to stretch laws to cheat the rules of society, but no; I talk about rights more elementary than that.</p> <p>For example, how can it be possible that I, as a Cuban citizen, cannot buy a car or rent a hotel room? Or that living in Cuba I cannot visit certain of our beautiful keys and beaches... or how to understand that I am harassed as I enter the lobby of a certain hotel just because I am a Cuban citizen. </p> <p>Thousands of times I have wondered to myself: why? They say it is because of the embargo... I cannot be rent a room in the Hotel because of the embargo, I cannot buy the car because of the embargo, I cannot travel abroad because of the embargo, I cannot have a cellular phone because of the embargo, I cannot have Internet at home because of the embargo. </p> <p>But the difference is that if you are a foreigner in Cuba, if you want a car, the embargo offers it to you, thus also the embargo offers beaches, the keys and the hotels to you. It is an implicit contradiction of the "idea of the embargo". that only is understood by some ¨illuminated civil servants¨...</p> http://ahoracuba.com/en/node/12#comment embargo laws restrictions social Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:31:20 -0500 Jorge 12 at http://ahoracuba.com