Hotels Too

By Patrick

First microwaves, then cell phones, and now Cubans are getting hotel privileges. I largely agree with Matt:

The reforms announced today by Raul Castro are hardly the last word in fixing Cuba's screwed-up economic system...but it's certainly a step in the right direction. It's high time for the United States to take a step in the right direction of our own by lifting some of the more draconian of our embargo-related restrictions on travel and so forth to Cuba.

Gordon Chang's take:

The real destabilizing factor about the cellphone reform is not that the Cuban people can find out about the rest of the world, as commentators have said recently. It is the resulting perception that their government can now be pressured. Raul has just started down a path of change that will, one way or another, lead to the end of communism in Cuba.