Mayan Symbols And There Meanings

Prostitution in Cuba

In the western hemisphere, Cuba is known, even before the Revolution to and Che Guevara, the wide variety of women willing to yield to wealthy tourists. From here you build a huge flow of men aged 18 to 60 years each year travel alone to Cuba in search of a few weeks of paid sex. And find it easily. Havana is just a walk on Fifth Avenue in Miramar or go to the House of Music, to be surrounded by girls of all types offering their bodies.

would therefore be hypocritical and dishonest to say that there is prostitution in Cuba and said that Cuba is a destination worldwide for sex tourism. All this is true. In Cuba there are prostitutes, especially in Havana, there are enough.

However, the desire to undertake a comprehensive and thoughtful about prostitution in Cuba, obliges me to go beyond what is seen walking through Havana and groped to explain What's behind this phenomenon.
The Cuban prostitute, commonly known in Cuba as "jinetera" should not be thought of as a street prostitute who sells out his body to eat or to feed his family. The Cuban jinetera should be included in the circle of "prostitute class", ie those who sell their bodies to "live well, just to work and earn a lot. And it is exactly how things are.
The "price" of the Cuban jinetera is around 30 CUC (ie around $ 30). It might seem a small amount that would justify the theory that many have about the reasons for prostitution. Of course, in Europe, prostitution is equivalent to $ 30 to do so by hunger. In Cuba the situation is more complex. It must be remembered that there are two different currencies, the CUC (convertible peso used by tourists) and the Cuban peso (used by the Cubans that has a value 24 times lower than the CUC, which is worth 24 Cuban pesos per CUC). This conversion is important when you consider that an average Cuban receives a monthly wage of 600 Cuban pesos (25 CUC), which means that the jinetera you pay for your "performance" at a price higher than the monthly salary of a Cuban worker. This, against the euro, would mean that a prostitute asks Italian € 800.

Hence disproved the theory that the alleged Castro regime has transformed the socialist island in a brothel in the open. Needs more than anything else, say it is consumerism, the desire to imitate the Western way of life, to have created this sad phenomenon. These women sell their bodies just to buy designer shoes, handbags made in Italy or to spend a week in a Hotel Varadero, all "luxury" that a Cuban could not actually afford.


If we compare to other so this phenomenon occurring in Brazil, Indonesia, the Caribbean and the rest of poor countries around the world, it follows that there is no comparison between these phenomena and fenemono "jineteras.

The purpose of this paper is a kind of response to a speech that I read Blog Yoani Sanchez . Mrs. Sanchez, improvised journalist (and see), speaks of the phenomenon jineteras, admits that prostitutes 25 CUC asked to provide, however, does not analyze way the economic aspect of the situation, does not consider the purchasing power of Cuban and does not consider the exponential increase in the purchasing power of jineteras arising from their work (during the busiest travel to Cuba, a month can get a jinetera guardagnare to about 1000 CUC), and then analyzing the phenomenon as yet another consequence of the policy of "regime". Despite its incomplete analysis, without structure and without contextualization (features always present in his blog), Ms. Sanchez is advertised all over the world as one who "dares" to describe the Cuban reality.