And this is what it looks like When “exclusive” apartheid tour companies come knocking on the door…
Today I received an email invitation to serve as a lecturer in a “very exclusive” luxury tour of Castrogonia.
The tour company –which shall remain nameless — boasts of being ‘The ultimate companion for the sophisticated traveller’
For the record, I’m posting that email as proof of the fact that tour operators are approaching “luxury” clients, planning trips to Castrogonia that are full-blown apartheid neocolonialist ventures.
Read the rest.
Only an uninformed idiot would ask Dr. Eire to take part of such travesty.
To add to the insult, the email he received mentions that “The NY Times is going to send someone along to write about [another one of their trips].”
The NYT Boor Review never got around to reviewing Waiting for Snow in Havana, even after it won the National Book Award.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/especiales/resumen2016/las10del2016/1029869-473/-los-10-villanos-del-mundo
I disagree with Carlos Eire’s response. He should have gone on the tour and given fact-filled lectures about the misdoings of the Castro regime. That would have shocked both the tour operators and their paying clients. If the tour operators shut him down while he was on the boat, Eire could have made political hay about that. When the tour operators decided to not renew his contract, Eire would also have made political hay about that.
I don’t know that I’d want to put myself through that, Gringo. if the leave him ashore in Havana he’d be jailed.