In light of the recent events involving the current administration’s soft touch with regards to Cuba and the new Orbitz campaign pushing to do business with the Castro communist dictatorship, it is necessary to point out that repression is still alive and well in Cuba. Here is a video showing the Cuban police arresting several women who are pacifist pro-democracy activists, part of the group Movimiento Feminista por los Derechos Civiles Rosa Parks (Rosa Parks Feminist Movement for Civil Rights:

For those who do not speak Spanish, these ladies were dragged to the patrol cars and beaten brutally by the male police officers for the “crime” of going to visit another, more well-known, pro-democracy activist, Jorge Luis García Pérez Antúnez. According to the ladies, they were kicked in the ribs, thrown against the patrol cars, kneed, pinned on the ground, choked, and thrown in a cell for about three hours by the police officers.

I wonder if Orbitz will take tourists on a tour inside the Castro prison cells, some of them the size of small closets called “gavetas” (translates: “drawers") where they cram multiple prisoners who must take turns sleeping since there is only space for one person to lay down. That would be a memorable experience for their customers… I would advise the directors on the board to try it first though, so they can experience the “magic” themselves.

Are this the type of regime America should be doing business with?

-AG