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Miami Herald
Miami Herald
Travel
Fabiola Santiago

Commentary: As Cubans flee, US travel operators peddle a tone-deaf, pastel view of an island paradise

MIAMI — I believe in Americans’ right to travel anywhere in the globe we wish.

But, at a time when hundreds of Cubans are in prison for voicing dissent and hundreds more are fleeing the island in record numbers — some dying at sea and during multi-country treks to the U.S.-Mexico border — the glossy American travel brochures peddling travel to Cuba sicken me.

How does one reconcile the images of rickety rafts washing ashore in South Florida with the Instagram-like images and descriptions of a paradise that doesn’t exist?

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