Can Cuba survive commercial culture?
A worker wiped a representation of the The Great Seal of the United States at the the newly opened U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived Friday morning in Havana for an historic ceremony to raise the U.S. flag over the restored U.S. Embassy in the Cuban capital.
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The opening of the embassies in Cuba and the US is a symbolic move in the normalization of relations between the two countries, but what will the real effects of that normalization be on the political, economic and environmental landscapes.
It's already started: Carnival Cruise lines has started "Social Impact" cruises to the island. Are we just opening the floodgates to allow American commercialism and capitalism to seep into Cuba? What does that mean for the communist party/ movement there?
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