Havana’s “Luxury Leftists”: The High-End Reality of the Nuestra América Convoy
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
HAVANA, CUBA — A fleet of tour buses carrying hundreds of Western activists rolled into Havana this week, marking the arrival of the Nuestra América Convoy. While the group claims their mission is one of humanitarian aid and “breaking the siege” of the U.S. embargo, their arrival has sparked a firestorm of criticism regarding the optics of “solidarity tourism.”
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