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Here we are again. Published in the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly is an article by none other than Kruschev's son with two co-authors. According to this article about it, he advocates US hospitality industry involvement in Cuba.

“We see a historic opportunity for profitable investment in a ‘new Cuba,’” write the authors. “Not only can the U.S. hospitality industry participate in shaping that new Cuba, in partnership with locals, but we contend that now is the time to advance prescriptive, forward-thinking insight designed to shift the thinking of the U.S. business community about Cuba and, in so doing, shift the thinking of the Cuban government, businesses, and people about their neighbors to the north.”

Just an observation or two or three. Ah, "profitable investment," play to those already frothing at the mouth at the thought of the gazillions of dollars they're missing. Then there's "in partnership with the locals." Would that be the local totalitarian government, the local CDR's? We know it can't be anyone else, since all investment must be done in partnership with the regime. Sorry, but there are no locals in this case, just the monolithic, repressive dictatorship.
Finally, has "the forward-thinking insight" of collaborator countries like Spain "shift[ed] the thinking of the Cuban government" at all? I'll give them that they have managed to shift the thinking of some Cubans in so far as they have imbued them with the less-than-favorable European view of America, something the regime had failed to do in decades of anti-US propaganda. And so, it goes, and goes, and goes

Still working on getting the original article.