It's also possible to feel quite worried about "normalisation".
Everyone knows that if the gates are fully opened to USA tourism the
island will be completely swamped. Someone worked out that there would
be five tourists to every Cuban. Where, then, does the additional work-
force come from? Not Haiti. And how do you get the profit to stay in
the country or, like the Bermudas, go straight back to source?
Hopefully the Cuban administration is aware of this danger. Already
the rhetoric of normalisation includes several references to "private
enterprise", which betray a wish not to normalise the relationship but
to normalise Cuba into an American version of normality. The boundary
between "private enterprise" and "American-owned" is always likely to
get fuzzy.
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