Starwood -Gaviota agreement on Cuban hotels only helps the oppressors

The chief administrative officer and general counsel of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Kenneth S. Siegel (i), President of the Cuban hotel group Gaviota, Carlos Latuff Carmenate (c), and the head of operations for Latin America , Starwood Hotels & Resorts,

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A reporter from The Miami Herald that supports Obama's policy to help improve the lives of ordinary Cubans believe that the settlement of the US company to manage Cuban hotels in military power fails that test.

The journalist Fabiola Santiago says in The Miami Herald that the arrangement for hotel management in Cuba between the American company Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide , and Gaviota Tourism Group, under the control of the Cuban military, only helps the oppressors.

Santiago, defined as one of the many Cuban - Americans who have supported the policy of President Obama 's commitment to help improve the lives of ordinary Cubans, says that there is a joint project between a US company and a Cuban businessman, of those who are supposed to benefit from the new policy toward Havana, but it is a business between American entertainment giant and the Cuban military, who have owned the hotel.

The author points out that if the intention of the approach is to create opportunities for Cubans earn a living regardless of monopoly and single - party system, the Starwood-Gaviota agreement does not pass the exam.

"We're just going through the personal enrichment of Castro and his family brothers through a totalitarian to the military repressors do exactly the same regime , " said the writer and recalls that members of the armed forces and their heirs already have in Cuba the best restaurants palates or private ".

"Now, with this agreement, they are also the only business partners of one of the leading companies in US travel and hospitality ," he says.

"What I see are Americans who try to make money in collusion with a repressive regime , " says Santiago.

Hotel "Four Points by Sheraton" in Havana (Cuba).

Hotel "Four Points by Sheraton" in Havana (Cuba).

The Herald reporter questioned the other hand the argument of the State Department regarding the approval of Treasury supply Starwood was necessary because Americans traveling to Cuba have complained about the poor quality of hotels administered by the government of the island and to return, supposedly to take further contact with Cubans, must be guaranteed at least the quality of accommodation and service they expect at a Sheraton.

"Forgive me for being so direct , " she says, "but me and dozens of other Cuban - Americans who have supported the engagement policy of the president in order to improve the lives of the people of Cuba have we not care how comfortable can feel the Americans when they travel to Cuba. "

If the American need for comfort continues to oppress the underpaid Cuban worker, if necessary to continue to maintain the repressive and only employer Cuban government so that Americans are comfortable, if your money will only go into the pockets of the dictatorship, by Please sleep on the beach. Or better yet, hospédense in a Cuban home.