It might have been Fidel. I was assuming though it was the poor Cuban women whom Fidel pimps.
(Gordon, p. 20). Reflecting the official line, Fidel
Castro remarked in 1993 that thanks to socialism Cuban
girls must make the cleanest and best-educated
prostitutes in the world. (Thomas Von Mouillard, Sex
Tourism Arrives in Cuba, The Ottawa Citizen, March 13,
1993, p. K5. (Lexis-Nexis); Adams, p. A1) Castro said
in 1992 in a speech to the Cuban National Assembly:
“There are no women forced to sell themselves to a
man, to a foreigner, to a tourist. Those who do so do
it on their own, voluntarily, and without any need for
it. We can say that they are highly educated hookers
and quite healthy, because we in the country with the
lowest numbers of AIDS cases… Therefore, there is
truly no prostitution healthier that Cuba’s. He also
said in 1992 that: “Cuban women become jineteras
(prostitutes) because they like sex.”
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Not very many heads of state speak this way about their women. |
