Time Magazine Sells Glossy Cuba Travel Guide
by Joel B. Pollak 21
Jul 2015
Time has published a new special edition that will be
at supermarket checkout counters and bookstores through Sep. 11: Inside the
New Cuba: Discovering the Charm of a Once-Forbidden
Island: The People, The Culture, The Paradise.
The glossy magazine mentions some of the
continuing political oppression inside the communist dictatorship, but
focuses on the island’s picturesque attractions, touts its many cultural
attractions, and celebrates the thaw in U.S-Cuban relations formally
announced by U.S. President Barack Obama in late 2014.
At times, the Time special strives to downplay
Cuba’s grim political reality. Cuban exiles, writes Karl Vick, “came to
dominate the U.S. view of Cuba for the next half-century, defining Castro’s
regime as totalitarian and the Cuban people as victims.” He adds: “There was no
shortage of facts supporting that view,” but says that “in retrospect, the Cold
War only framed what was at heart a neighborhood grudge match.” He
notes that Internet access unavailable, and “[e]very block has its
Committee for the Defense of the Revolution to inform on the neighbors.”
The highlights likeliest to attract American interest spill
across the pages: a visit to Ernest Hemingway’s “haunts,” a tour of
Havana’s night clubs, a guide to cigars, and a section on Cuban baseball.
(Defections by Cuban athletes continued this month: one of the non-defectors said: “I hope
they’re happy. They have left something beautiful behind, which is socialism
and our country’s dignity. Let them do what they can in other countries. We
will continue doing what we can for the revolution.”) A section on art features
brightly-colored propaganda mosaics.
There is, of course, the chance that Cuba really will
change–if the Obama administration decides to apply pressure, which it has
largely declined to do, or–more likely–once the Castro brothers go the way of
all flesh.
Time‘s writers seem preoccupied with a different kind
of change–namely, the prospect of thousands of rich American tourists arriving
and demanding creature comforts that will ruin the island’s charm. That might
be a price that Cuba’s people might well be willing to pay, if it also
brings prosperity, openness and freedom.
Time
Magazine
Mark
Halperin was a senior political analyst for Time magazine, and his father is Morton H. Halperin.
Note: Morton H. Halperin
is Mark Halperin’s father, and a senior
adviser for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Melissa
Soros’s father-in-law, Robert Soros,
Jonathan Soros & Andrea Soros’s father, a board member
for the International Crisis Group, and
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, the International
Rescue Committee, the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Andrew
Tobias was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and a columnist for Time magazine.
Kate
Betts is a contributing editor for Time
magazine, and a friend of Melissa
Soros.
Melissa
Soros is a friend of Kate Betts,
George Soros’s daughter-in-law, and
married to Robert Soros.
Robert
Soros is married to Melissa Soros,
George Soros’s son, and Jonathan Soros’s brother.
Jonathan
Soros is Robert Soros’s brother,
George Soros’s son, the vice
chairman for the Open Society
Foundations, a director at the New
America Foundation, and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Fareed
Zakaria is a director at the New
America Foundation, the editor-at-large for Time magazine, and an advisory council member for the Acumen Fund.
Andrea
Soros is a director at the Acumen
Fund, and George Soros’s
daughter.
Samantha
Power was a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine, a board member for the International Crisis Group, Barack
Obama’s aide, a director at the International
Rescue Committee, is the United
Nations U.S. ambassador, and married to Cass R. Sunstein.
Barack
Obama’s aide was Samantha Power’s,
and is married to Michelle Obama.
Michelle
Obama is married to Barack Obama,
and was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
L.
John Doerr is a director for the ONE
Campaign, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Frederic V. Malek
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), the founder & board member American Action Network, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Hispanic
Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
Jeb Bush
is an advisory committee member for the Hispanic
Leadership Network, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, and was the governor; commerce secretary for the Florida state government.
Florida
state government is the government for the State of Florida.
FL
congressional delegation is the delegation or the State of Florida.
Mario Diaz-Balart
is a house member for the FL
congressional delegation, an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network, Rafael Diaz-Balart’s son, Mirta Diaz-Balart’s nephew, was a
member of the Florida House of
Representatives, and a senator for the Florida
Senate.
Rafael
Diaz-Balart was Mario Diaz-Balart &
Lincoln Diaz-Balart’s father,
and the majority leader for the Cuba
House of Representatives.
Lincoln
Diaz-Balart was Rafael Diaz-Balart’s
son, a Florida Senate senator, and
is Mirta Diaz-Balart’s nephew.
Mirta
Diaz-Balart is Rafael Diaz-Balart & Lincoln Diaz-Balart’s
aunt, and was married to Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro was
married to Mirta Diaz-Balart, the president of Cuba, and is Raul
Castro’s brother.
Raul Castro is Fidel
Castro’s brother, the president of the council of state for Cuba,
and a speaker at Nelson Mandela’s funeral service.
Barack Obama was a speaker
at Nelson Mandela’s funeral service.
Richard Stengel
worked with Nelson Mandela on his autobiography, and was a managing
editor for Time magazine.
Walter
Isaacson was a managing editor for Time
magazine, and is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
L.
John Doerr is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a director for the ONE Campaign.
Morton H. Halperin
is a director for the ONE Campaign, a
senior adviser for the Open Society
Foundations, and Mark Halperin’s
father.
Mark
Halperin is Morton H. Halperin’s
son, and was a senior political analyst for Time magazine.
Strobe
Talbott was an editor for Time
magazine, William J. Clinton’s
roommate at Oxford, and is the president for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
William J. Clinton’s
roommate at Oxford was Strobe Talbott,
and is the founder of the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation,
Andrew
Tobias was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and a columnist for Time magazine.
Cass R. Sunstein
is a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Samantha Power.
Samantha
Power is married to Cass R. Sunstein,
the United Nations U.S. ambassador, was
a board member for the International
Crisis Group, Barack Obama’s
aide, a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Africare
was a partner with the ONE Campaign.
Barack
Obama contributed $100,000 of Nobel Prize money to Africare.
Nelson Mandela was
an honorary chairman for Africare,
Barack Obama was a speaker
at Nelson Mandela’s funeral service.
Raul Castro was a speaker
at Nelson Mandela’s funeral service, is Fidel Castro’s brother, and
the president of the council of state for Cuba.
Fidel
Castro is Raul Castro’s brother,
was the president of Cuba, and
married to Mirta Diaz-Balart.
Mirta
Diaz-Balart was married to Fidel
Castro, and her nephews are Lincoln
Diaz-Balart &
Mario Diaz-Balart.
Mario Diaz-Balart
is Mirta Diaz-Balart’s nephew, a house
member for the FL congressional
delegation, an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network, Rafael
Diaz-Balart’s son, was a member of the Florida
House of Representatives, and a senator for the Florida Senate.
Hispanic
Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
Jeb Bush
is an advisory committee member for the Hispanic
Leadership Network, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, George H.W. Bush’s son, and
was the governor; commerce secretary for the Florida state government.
George
H.W. Bush is Jeb Bush’s father, a
member of the Alfalfa Club, and was
a director at the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA).
Juanita Castro
collaborated with the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), and is
Fidel Castro &
Raul Castro’s sister.
Fidel
Castro is Juanita Castro & Raul Castro’s brother, was married to Mirta Diaz-Balart, and the president of
Cuba.
Judith A. Miscik
was a deputy director of intelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and director at the International Rescue Committee.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Samantha
Power was a director at the International
Rescue Committee, a board member for the International Crisis Group, Barack
Obama’s aide, a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine, is married to Cass
R. Sunstein, and the United Nations
U.S. ambassador.
Strobe
Talbott was an editor for Time
magazine, William J. Clinton’s
roommate at Oxford, and is the president for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cass R. Sunstein
is a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Samantha Power.
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