The most frequent argument and strong allegedly used by opponents of the Cuban Revolution noted the "impossibility" to leave the island as accurate as its lack of democracy, and features a photo of boat people "escaping" Cuba as conclusive evidence widespread discontent that could only be explained by an insensitive and tyrannical regime that imprisons its citizens condemning them to live by force in economic and social model clearly unfair. The failure of the socialist model push their people to risk his life by jumping in flimsy boats in shark-infested waters in the hope that the U.S., a country noble and magnanimous collect them jointly as "exiles."
almost total lack of objective information on what laws and regulations governing the Cuban socialism and the abundance of unsubstantiated opinions with clear anti-Cuban bias from the mainstream media emanating makes most of the world opinion living in a confusion on the subject that touches the imagination, where many assume that for some reason, the evil dictator Castro Decree prohibits the islanders go beyond the boundary lines for reasons macabre nobody ever explicit. That is why we can infer that political positions are make in the revolutionary process would be very different if access to information were not hindered by strong economic interests that reap huge profits from such misinformation and that their actions limit the ability of citizens to develop their own positions.
The truth is that Cuban law there is no impediment to leave the country temporarily or permanently. In 2008, only to give an example, more than 200,000 Cubans made temporary trips abroad. Those interested in leaving the country must apply for your passport at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and then apply for an exit visa. Given the tremendous shortage of currency caused by the blockade (which generates a constant trade deficit settled only by the inflow of foreign exchange from tourism), permission for temporary leave is granted to those who really need it for work or other reasons really a priority. Those who want to vacation outside the country must demonstrate that a family member or friend outside cover their expenses through an invitation from them. So, yes there is a severe constraint in practice a very low proportion of Cubans to vacationing abroad, and is economic. This is not a whim. No one who has analyzed the economic structure Cuban fairly deny that releasing the lock U.S. economic maintains the island with more than four decades, block that generates an estimated annual losses of $ 100 million, the general welfare of the population would increase significantly and thus many more Cubans would have the apparent "human right" to access luxuries such as vacations abroad, have 50-inch LCD TV or any other conspicuous consumption is used as an index of democracy from the consumer perspective - capitalist. It is therefore clear that one of the measures used to measure and test of democracy to the island (the inability to leave the country) is simply and directly false.
When one analyzes the numbers of tourist movements around the world shows that, in practice, for obvious financial reasons not to become just the Cubans, but most of the world population who has de facto prohibited the possibility of leaving home. Capitalism is a system that specializes in providing freedoms established by law but is prohibited by economics.
According to World Bank figures, only 15% of the world's richest people can afford to vacation in remote and overseas aphrodisiac beaches, average conceals marked differences between regions.
Being emissive tourism luxury consumption, not surprising to note that the alleged need-free-right-to leave the country is practically reduced to the tiny jurisdiction of the richest and most powerful mundo.Cuanto richer a country, higher the proportion of the population can get out of. Under this situation, if we study how it relates to the wealth of each country (per capita GDP being evaluated on PPA) with data courtesy truly remarkable book emissive arise.
emissive While Cuban tourism fits perfectly to the values \u200b\u200bexpected given their level of wealth, the U.S. turns out to be just one of the countries with lower tourism emissive given its great economic power. Thus, as democracy with its own staff, it becomes one of the most undemocratic in the world.
In most countries, democracy means that the vast majority live completely dispossessed, but with the legal and theoretical possibility of visiting the major sources of consumption. Democracy is having the right to dream of exquisite banquet while eating the remains of the trash outside. You sleep in the street and dream palaces. You have to accept that extreme inequality and poverty is not the product of injustice but the lack of effort. If you want to consume do no law or judge stops him. Key
reading Figure 2: the line represents the average ratio (positive) between wealth measured in GDP per capita PPP and Tourism emissivity (in%) for a sample of 127 countries for which data are available. Each point represents a country, and the distance of each point to the line is positive or negative deviation with respect to the expected value of tourism emissive given the level of wealth. The countries closest to the line are those that best fit the expected level of outputs given their wealth.
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