Yesterday I was watching a television documentary about the prostitution in the Caribbean, men and women. It is a phenomenon that goes hand in hand with the international tourism that many countries in the area receive and in each one it has adopted particular characteristics. For example, what about prostitution in Cuba?
El sex tourism on the island it began when the government decided to encourage the tourism industry in the early 90s. At the time, the Cuban economy was in a frank crisis because the Soviet Union, the country that sent it the funds to support itself, had collapsed and a new form of foreign exchange income had to be found. First came the hotel groups, mostly Spanish, and then the flow of American and European tourists in search of beaches, the sea and a bit of sex.
Well, you cannot talk about prostitution without focusing on the socio-economic situation of Cuba and the history of the country in the last 50 years. When the revolution triumphs, the first thing that is done is to prohibit the practice of prostitution throughout the island, the brothels were closed and the "tolerance zones" were canceled. The measures helped Cuban women occupy another space in society, helped them to leave their home to go to university and to work alongside men. In a word, prostitution was abolished in Cuba just as slavery was abolished.
So why the «prostitutes»Famous return before the end of the twentieth century, in the same government that knew how to ban them before? Well, that prostitution begins to appear again in the decade of the '80s, very slight, and it is definitively installed again in the' 90s when the standard of living falls to intolerable limits. Today there are 5,6 million women in Cuba and 2 million are between 16 and 35 years old, but there are no official figures on how many are involved in "jineterismo", as they say here. Some dare to say that there are many, others that there are really few compared to other third world countries, but well, there are prostitutes anyway.
Today we can see women (jineteras) and men (penguins) work discreetly and according to some, in a government-controlled manner. Fees are handled between 35 and $ 80 and women can be found online, asking in hotels or going to dance at the disco The tunnel, the preferred site where the tourist can contact what they are looking for. The economic crises do not help to banish the oldest profession in the world and the sad thing is that these women do not bury the hope that someone will fall in love with them and take them out of the country.
The jinetaras do this thing out of need to manage their family because I don't work in Cuba, life in Cuba is very hard. I am a foreigner who studied in Cuba for more than 5 years. I know what Cuba is like. The money you earn doesn't come at all. Because I know that a plastic surgeon earns $ 25 dollars a month, so the jineteras does this job because the Cuban women are very humble and respectful people when she has a serious relationship, I hope that one day, Cuba, you will be liberated.
muchcasa grace Greetings Richard Aruba Holland
As a Cuban, it is good to talk about realities that happen daily, with or without revolution, in our country.
As a woman and a mother, it is a shame that we have come so low….
Hopefully one day the odyssey ends.
The prostitutes in Cuba exist because they want to, because there are needs, it is true, but so far no one has died of hunger or lack of medical attention, which are the only two things that could justify something like that.
Dressing nicely and having money is another thing and it is achieved by working although I know that it is difficult and working is what the jineteras do not want so everything is easier and better paid because not all women are willing
It is completely false that Cuban prostitutes are obtained online. I challenge the commenter to say where they found it.
I insist, it's a total lie
Maxgre read your brief comment carefully, and as a Cuban who lived 30 years of my life in Cuba, I have for logical reason better knowledge than you and others of what life is really like for a normal Cuban family in Cuba, MAYBE I DON'T KNOW THEY LITERALLY DIE OF HUNGER IN CUBA, as you rightly comment, but if they DO NOT know what an apple, a pear or a grape is, FRUITS COMOE SAS I CAME TO TOUCH IT AND SEE IT AT MY 30 WHEN LEAVING Cuba, well an immense list of products such as these 3 examples are unknown to them and forbidden to acquire to whoever was born there, not to an Argentine, no matter how poor he is within his country and who at least loves to enter a supermarket in his country and has at the time An Argentine peso in your hand, in short, if it is bad in your country to die for not having a real to buy something to eat, it is also horrible for a Cuban father or mother to work daily, to obtain a salary every month in Cuban currency, to say , I have Cuban money and it is useless to me thenI am NOT allowed to pay and not even enter those markets and stores where in my own country it is only allowed by government policy to buy in foreign currency or in CUC, both things are horrible, the latter from Cuba, besides being horrible, is discriminatory and denigrated and one suffers within Cuba, not outside of Cuba, without fault on the part of an ordinary Cuban, due to the financial imposition of 2 currencies in the same country, hopefully one day you will have the privilege of visiting a poor Cuban family, talking with them sitting at home and seeing how they live, how they cook their food with kerosene when they get it and how they are forced to look for CUC currency or euros to at least be able to solve their need to eat that day because in the market, there is no supply for Cubans from villages almost starve them to death, where the only thing they find something to buy is in tourist shops, friend, truths are true and to ignore them is to cover the sun with a finger or perhaps ignore them out of ignorance Well, I do not think you are a malicious person, but someone who has read only good things about Cuba from the outside and has never listened in private to a Cuban family at home.
I don't know where your family lives, what they have to do when they get it ...
Since in Cuba electric kitchen was provided to everyone with electric rice cookers,
electric pressure cookers, and it is rare to find a house in Havana that does not have gas for cooking,
I think the best thing we have is that we do not have anyone sick without medical attention or anyone living under bridges, parks or portals, as thousands of thousands of first world citizens have to live ... that is our wealth ... cause Laughter to hear about pears and apples, imported products that nobody, absolutely no ordinary Cuban, ever ate in his life because of their high price in a country of five million inhabitants with more than a million unemployed, please do not want to lie to the world, with fables that have heard the late nights tell.
If Mario is right, in Cuba you live very well, there is everything and you breathe freedom, people are free to come and go wherever they want, they can freely choose a ruler and you can live comfortably with what you earn from your work, the Apples, the pear are remnants of the capitalist past, a very bad system that people starve to death, what a sad system, each country should be given the same ruler for 51 years and then when he can no longer, he inherits the position to his closest family member and the people delighted with this, that the dynasty continues, so the countries would improve their economy and swim in money like Cuba, which in addition to being free, people are happy and have all their problems of the first order resolved, I live in lke capitalist and there is a misery, how sad it is to be able to decide a ruler with a multiparty system, to be able to come and go on my vacations, to a different country without accounting to anyone, the apples and pears that horror should uproot all the trees becausePeople should not eat them anymore, there is so much misery in the capitalist countries, that from Cuba they send food and money to help the millions of unemployed in these sad and poor countries, how sad capitalism is, we must take the example of Cuba, to to end the fables of the night owls and the hallucinations of drug addicts, the latter does not exist in Cuba, it is only an evil of capitalism, how sad, what I cannot understand, because people in Cuba do what is possible and what is impossible to go to depressing and terrible capitalism if they are so happy in Cuba.
It is true that prostitution has always existed, but the "revolution" was filled with the mouth of saying that it had eradicated it and now there are even school girls involved in it.
I think this topic is very trite, JINETERAS are everywhere in the world, and there are places like in Brazil or the USA that there is much more than in CUBA, it seems to me that the real topic is the Italians and the Spaniards, who have a very tendency marked to look for JINETERAS in Cuba, and they like to talk a lot about the subject and fantasize about it.
kubanozon, CONGRATULATIONS !!!! I LOVE YOUR COMMENT. YOU HAVE A GREAT WAY OF SAYING THINGS ABOUT OUR CUBA.
BUT THAT PURSES FOR KRYTAL, I SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LIVING IN A FREE COUNTRY WITH THE OPPORTUNITY THAT I DIDN'T HAVE IN CUBA AND THE WASTE BY REDUCING HIS BODY AND HIS DIGNITY, AND DISPRESSING THE DIGNITY OF CUBAN WOMEN. WHAT A PITY! I PRAY GOD FOR HER, BECAUSE SHE REALIZES THE GREAT MISTAKE THAT IS MAKING.
AND CUBA IS UNFORTUNATELY THE JOY OF FOREIGNERS ... AND OF MANY CUBANS WHO GO THERE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CHEAP PROSTITUTES. TOO PUNISHMENT! THAT LITTLE CUBANS ARE!
Kubanoson, you killed Mario, you destroyed him, good for you, bad for that kind of people who, even though they are blinded by the same way of life they lead, who have not known another, and who think that life is normal, (me I imagine it's called brainwashing) don't have aspirations, don't believe that the best is the best, and that you swallow all the garbage that your government gives you without having free will. Very good for you, you are scathing and eloquent in your fealty arguments.
I am a woman and I lived for 40 years in Cuba and I have two female daughters, one of 20 and one of 15, only three have left my country and I give thanks to God. sad to say that I do not share the easy way in which money is sought. They are young people who have studied or many who have dropped out of their studies to get the rubbish or the clothes and give themselves a life that is not within the reach of youth, not everyone in Cuba is lucky enough to have families outside that will help them and parents do not They can give them what they need is sad but it is the reality of the Cubans and although I do not share that way I do not criticize them each; he has free advocate, and the fault of those things is the regime that is in power that they do have Everything they say and their children the same, also forgive but p… .as cheap anywhere in the world here in the US that it is necessary to do it, many earn more than a professional and others who are given away and for a whistle of marijuana. I do not criticize Kristal, he has his motives and reasons and I admire his confidence that in expressing what he feels without fear or pain and forgive, maybe it is not understood but it is what I feel
prostitute-prostitute..because so much evil ..... because we do not deny that they are mainly mothers who look for the daily bread of each day for their son or for their youngest sister who goes to school with a glass of water with sugar, shame for the tourists who go to Cuba to become the miyonarios with 200 pesos in their pockets and then they are here all the time making misery ,,, I would advise all the so-called jinetera to take as much as possible from the workers who are going to Cuba and if they are old better
NIME, I WANT TO CLARIFY YOU THAT IN MEXICO, NO WORKERS CAN GO TO CUBA, AND THE REASON IS THAT THEY DON'T GET ENOUGH SALARY TO SPEND 2000 DOLLARS IN A WEEK, NO WHERE YOU LIVE, BUT THE WORKERS DON'T EARN OR 100 DOLLARS A WEEK HERE , AND ONLY THOSE WHO CAN GO TO CUBA, ARE PROFESSIONISTS OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE THEIR OWN BUSINESS, AND I ALSO BELIEVE THAT A SIMPLE WORKER OR NORMAL SALARY WORKER CANNOT TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT EVEN TO EAT. CHAO EVERYONE, LONG LIVE CUBA, LONG LIVE MY PRETTY PEOPLE,
That will be in Mexico, but there are countries where workers pay well, because I am a worker and I can travel.
bubblegum I do not know who you are, but I think you have not read my comments well, the first
I wrote it with as much irony as possible, responding to Mario's comment, but if you don't understand the figurative sense and the double meaning of the Spanish language, you have to go back to school, I am as Cuban as you and although I left there ago 17 years old, read well what I put below and interpret; "In search of freedom of action, word and thought" I am not one of those who goes there every year, because it interests me, but I know very well what happens in Cuba, because it has been the same for 52 years, when the dynastic dictatorship of the Castros to power in 1959, I am not ignorant, I have enough common sense to know what I write. My second comment is a defense spear in favor of prostitution in general, not only in Cuba, for me it is a necessary evil simply and simply, I do not criticize any person who dedicates themselves to that profession, I believe in my previous comment, where I refer to the subject, it is more than clear and explicit what I think about prostitution, the oldest profession in this world, so before talking in a rush and mentioning me in your comments, I thank you first read them carefully, before issuing your comment on mine.
Hector, I think you do not know anything related to Cuba and especially related to the internet, since as the author of the first comment says, on the internet you can perfectly meet prostitutes on pages like AMISTARIUM or BADOO. prostitutes and they give you the price per hour or night, because otherwise that page would disappear immediately, but the fact that it is not totally explicit, I can assure you that in those pages that I have put for you, you can meet or meet with countless girls with the that you could be in Cuba in exchange for money or gifts You should not be so sure in your opinions without knowing, asking or investigating a little before calling someone a liar who by what you see knows these pages, try to be a little more rigorous in your comments and so you will not remain as ignorant, in the end everything has to be in the vineyard of the Lord.
The need moves mountains and the need in Cuba is no less.
I adore Cuba and above all its people, it hurts me that many only know CUba for this matter, when Cuba is infinitely more than all this.In my opinion, anyone who goes to Cuba will come back in love with what was seen and felt there. CUBA !!!!!
They do it out of necessity, I don't think it's to be ashamed ... God only knows why he allowed that ...
I lived in Cuba for a while and I had the opportunity to see how the Cuban lives, the needs, the jineteras, the pingueros is something out of the ordinary but it is the life of the Cuban we cannot do anything
What is it about charging expensive to justify the act? or it is charged cheap because the offer is large and of quality. I see the situation differently, each woman or man prostitutes himself for reasons of ego or necessity. each case has its peculiarities
for ego because he wants to wear something. out of necessity because you need to eat household expenses and you have no preparation or you have it and there are no opportunities.
on the other hand this is also driven by certain types of human beings, men or women with a tendency to dominate others.
They organize the world in countries, states or provinces, municipalities, ejidos, colonies, etc.
We are not Mexican because I was born in Mexico, not American either because I was born in America I am terrestrial ... do you understand? I do not have a corral for me, you and all the women in the world are my terrestrial brothers without prejudice, all the prostitutes in the world I love them for giving what a man always wants as they give it cheap or expensive or for love
HEY BEEN VIEWING THIS PAGE, AND THE TRUTH THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT ARE TRUE, IT IS ONE THING TO GO TO CUBA AND BE IN A HOTEL AND LIVE AS A CUBAN ,, I WAS A FEW MONTHS AGO, AND THE TRUTH SURPRISED ME A LOT, ITS PEOPLE LIVE ON THE ISLAND, HE WAS IN SEVERAL PLACES ON THE ISLAND, AND I COULD SEE THAT THERE IS NEED EVERYWHERE, BUT I DIDN'T SEE EXTREME POOR AS SEEN IN THE COUNTRIES OF LATIN AMERICA, WITH DEMOGRATIC GOVERNMENT, WHERE YOU SEE, Q PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T HAVE MONEY. IF YOU GET SICK YOU DIE, BECAUSE THE MEDICINES AND THE DOCTORS ARE EXPENSIVE, I DID NOT SEE CRIME, THEFT OR THINGS BECAUSE OF STYLE, I COULD SEE THAT IT IS A SAFE COUNTRY, TO GO OUT AND WALK IN QUIET, THAT WHICH CANNOT BE SEEN IN OUR COUNTRIES FROM LATIN AMERICA, I AM NOT A SOCIALIST, AND I WOULD LIKE TO COME THE CHANGE TO CUBA, AT LEAST MORE FREEDOM, IN OPINING AND SAYING WHAT YOU FEEL, Q YOU HAVE A SINGLE CURRENCY, WHERE YOU PAY THEM IN CUC AND YOU CAN BUY IN CUC, AND ABOVE ALL Q THEY CAN BE FREE TO GO WHERE THEY WANT. I HOPE YOU GO SOON, I LOVE CUBA, AND I RESPECT ALL CUBANS,
I get the impression that prostitutes and prostitutes are getting mixed up. The prostitutes do not have a fee and what they do is tie up with a foreigner they like and that while they are on vacation in Cuba they will be with him, at the hotel, the restaurant, the beach, ... The foreigner may give them gifts ( generally yes) and may not, and may or may not leave you some money when you leave. And he may, if he's been very impressed, that he wants to marry the prostitute and take her with him.
The jinetera does not go abroad out of necessity, but to live better than she lives, something that is done regardless of having a high or low standard of living. And I will not be the one to reproach him. As I will not be the one who reproaches them for taking everything they can from the foreigner on those vacations, because deep down that foreigner was going to temper one or several Cuban women, without any respect for them.
Jineteras and jineteros are not prostitution. They simply take advantage of someone who wants to take advantage of them.
An evil more than a social good has been occurring in all countries and in Cuba it is not the exception, I think that it should be seen from the social perspective as a social problem.
GAISKE FORGET ABOUT THE PLEASURE AND THE ORGASM THAT THE JINETERAS GAIN THEREFORE NEITHER A THEFT OR DECEPTION IS JUST A KIND OF FRIENDSHIP AND MUTUAL NEED SOMETHING SUBLIME IN A LAND LIKE CUBA I LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE SAID A VERY DIFFERENT PR JINETERA THE DIFFERENCE IS IN WHICH THEY ENJOY AND LET ENJOY AND THAT IS MAN NOBLE (GENEROUSLY) SINCERE THAT A CUBAN LADY CAN BE RESPECTED I WILL VISIT WITHIN LITTLE CUBA AND I HOPE TO GIVE AS MUCH AS THEY GIVE ME AND I DON'T SPEAK ONLY IN THE MATERIAL ASPECT PHYSICAL, PLEASANT, FRIENDSHIP AND AS YOU SAY, WHO KNOWS TO TAKE ME A CUBAN TO MY COUNTRY WHO DOES NOT WANT A WOMAN WHO GIVES AND RECEIVES. THAT IS SINCERE WITH HER OWN BODY.
Hello Latinos, I am Mexican but unfortunately or fortunately. I live abroad ok but I will tell you I have had the opportunity to live in Canada and meet women. Canadians who have to work as prostitutes in their country and right now they work in a bar who have to dance in a pol dance ok and I live in London and the women who are the same already even More money than working in an office at all THE WORLD IS JINETERISM but it is but that everyone understands there are people who exits me as from Cuba portable women need a lot and also men ok
I have been in Cuba Every 3 years concecutibos and Every year I go and buy fishing utensils and notebooks for the children the people buy crayons for the children but they do not have to buy a notebook to ok that purdah utilization what you want to give away ok
I ... regardless of the comments, I would like to meet a beautiful Cuban to bring her to me here where I live ... I'll tell you how they are ... the rest are lip service.
I do not think that jineterismo is something typical of the tyranny of the Castro brothers, and I know the prices of pingueros in Cuba and they are not so high at all, they range between 5 and 10 dollars and that is why they do wonders for you, it is not because I have paid for them but one asks and inquires, and also if it is their body there as long as nobody forces them, please do not suffer with what others enjoy because they can be frustrated, also I have traveled the whole world and found them in Brazil, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Switzerland, Spain, Holland, United States, Canada, so if all countries are screwed up by jineterismo.
so fucked up
Well the truth is that all this is for lack of opportunities in that country and in the whole world and the truth is that we should not admire each other because I think that where you stand you will always find this and it is normal I am Mexican and the truth in this country It exists in all the states of the Mexican public that we are scared but hey what if I suggest eske in that country there is equality between women and men
IT IS MORE SAD TO SEE THESE PINGUERS IN THE METRO OF MEXICO CITY. IN THE LAST WAGONS, HOW THEY WIN THEY TO DO THEIR PORTS. I FEEL IT'S BETTER TO BE WITH A GIRL FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND BE HAPPY AS A WOMAN.
It seems shameful to me that a country like Cuba, the population has to live with female prostitution and more culina, under the power of the Castro because their daughters and sons do not prostitute themselves, while the rest of the Cubans die of hunger. The military and the army, long live Cuba, a Spaniard
You have to see the positive, the prostitutes have little chance of having AIDS, I mean they are clean inside thanks to the revolution, the bad thing is that they are dirty on the outside because thanks to the revolution there are no soaps to clean the business, or the from the back nor the one from the front because there is no paper to wipe their ass, they even have to have ball bearings and they say they use a tampon cloth and then they lend it ...
look, don't criticize anyone, when you go to Cuba try to help people with what you can, God will reward you 10000000000 for one….
Thanks for the info…. I love prostitution and more if they are little assholes hahaha
I think that Cuba will change now that there is already a dialogue between the US and Cuba, little by little the embargo that has kept Cuba and its people like this will be lifted, the Cuban is a very warm and friendly individual, and little by little Soon, foreign investment will begin to settle and grow in Cuba, with which its people will have better possibilities of development and improve their way of life, they will have better opportunities, in what refers to the so-called jineteras, the circumstances of this life of oppression. and with few opportunities, circumstances and necessity have led many of them to practice prostitution, as a way of survival, for them and their families, that is why my respect for them, because it is not easy, to have that profession , but necessity has forced them and has led them to this, hopefully with the changes that are expected, this will diminish little by little, and to have better possibilities of living and working, Cubans are good people, that Pray better days, I am Ecuadorian in love with a Cuban woman, and I know the reality that they have lived through all these years. Luis P
I would like to know the beautiful republic of Cuba its beautiful beaches and why not marry a beautiful and tasty Cuban woman and bring her to Mexico I am from the state of Puebla and make family in these Blessed and wonderful lands that Cubans live and that they take care god