- Joined
- May 13, 2010
- Messages
- 5,217
- Reaction score
- 747
- Location
- Los Angels, USA
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Slightly Conservative
The Castroit regime enforce several types of apartheid:
1. "Tourist apartheid", which separates regular Cubans from the tourists. Cubans are kept away from tourists by the regime security apparatus that tightly controls most of the tourist resort areas. These areas are off-limits to the average Cubans, which cannot afford most of the hotels even if they have dollars.
2. "Healthcare apartheid". While the elite and tourists have access to fully equipped and stocked hospitals, the ordinary Cubans have only access to crumbling hospitals that lack even the basics: from sheets to medicines. One of the problems with the healthcare system in Cuba is the severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and other supplies, brought about by the centralized planning by the regime that has leads to chronic material shortages and inefficiency.
3. "Information apartheid": Tourists have access to internet and international satellite channels. Cuba’s internet remains one of the most restricted and censored in the world, according to the 2013 Freedom on the Net ranking. Cubans face many restrictions to internet access, and are sent to jail for running Wi-Fi networks. The regime crackdown on bloggers and dissident journalist.
1. "Tourist apartheid", which separates regular Cubans from the tourists. Cubans are kept away from tourists by the regime security apparatus that tightly controls most of the tourist resort areas. These areas are off-limits to the average Cubans, which cannot afford most of the hotels even if they have dollars.
2. "Healthcare apartheid". While the elite and tourists have access to fully equipped and stocked hospitals, the ordinary Cubans have only access to crumbling hospitals that lack even the basics: from sheets to medicines. One of the problems with the healthcare system in Cuba is the severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and other supplies, brought about by the centralized planning by the regime that has leads to chronic material shortages and inefficiency.
3. "Information apartheid": Tourists have access to internet and international satellite channels. Cuba’s internet remains one of the most restricted and censored in the world, according to the 2013 Freedom on the Net ranking. Cubans face many restrictions to internet access, and are sent to jail for running Wi-Fi networks. The regime crackdown on bloggers and dissident journalist.