Lettre de démission à l’Institut Cubain d’Art et d’Industrie Cinématographiques (ICAIC)

Tourist Trap: Cuba as a Microcosm

“…However, with the economic privations of the 1990s, the informal economy was extensive. According to one report, for example, a luxury hotel in the resort of Varadero, one of the new mixed enterprises managed by a Spanish company, consumed no more than 40% of the quantity of goods supplied to a similar hotel at the same resort under Cuban administration (Alea 1991). In other words, some 60% of the goods supplied to the Cuban hotel was disappearing into the subterranean economy, of which, of course, the guests in either hotel remained blissfully unaware.…”