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Lindsey Graham: “That is the story. Unfortunately, the people who those tourists will come in contact with will be the virtual serfs of…”

On the recordJune 30, 1999
That is the story. Unfortunately, the people who those tourists will come in contact with will be the virtual serfs of the Castro regime because the hotels are required to purchase their employees through the Cuban Government, not by direct negotiation with the individual or through some organization representing those individuals. So by that walled-off enclave in which they are enjoying themselves, on an island of prosperity in a sea of despair--which is Cuba today --they are contributing to the maintenance of a system of economic slavery that virtually has left the face of the Earth for the past century and a half.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of tourism on the Cuban economy and its workers under the Castro regime.

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