Cuba has always been criticised for keeping a tight hold on it’s people, but many of us had fallen into the thought that it was a more liberated country now. However it would appear that recently the Cuban police and government have made a massive mistake.
Monday proved to be a particularly bad day when the Government beat up a Blogger for speaking to the world about Cuba across the Internet, freedom of Speech is practically non existent here! Yoani, a Blogger in Cuba who is known for putting her views on her country across the Internet was approached by plain clothes policeman and beaten the other day. She and some friends were walking down a road to a demonstration, where they were beaten.
Tourism has started to boom in Cuba, and only recently, this has started to take off and improve. Now that Tourism is one of Cuba’s biggest money spinners, incidents like these can’t go unwatched, and especially with someone influential on the Internet.
Although Cuba has been known for keeping a tight hold on freedom of speech, it was thought that things had calmed down and that people had a little more leeway. Attacking an Internet Blogger that is quite established in the Internet world, is probably one of the worst possible ideas, surely speaking to her about the issue is better off, this won’t look good for Cuba at all. Not to mention that the main problem is that she can spread her message to the whole world in a matter of minutes.
Holidays have been smacked by the current economic climate in the recent couple of years, but now they are back on the rise, Cuba needs to get these holidays or lose profits and investment, so what do you say would you like to go on a Cuba holiday, or maybe Maldives holidays, or different Caribbean holidays sound like a more sensible idea this year. Recently I travelled on Sri Lanka holidays, and thats not exactly a quite place, but I would prefer it to Cuba at the present time.