CNN International is very concerned that the influx of Americans and American investment will “ruin” the communist nation of Cuba, a nation with a decades-long history of poverty and human rights abuses.
CNN’s James Williams and Daisy Carrington urge travelers to visit Cuba before it’s too late. “To some outsiders, it looks firmly stuck in the 1950s. Vintage cars roam the streets, the landscape is absent of strip malls and global chains, and the buildings — though crumbling — hark back to a grander time.” The grander time, CNN neglects to mention, is when Cuba was full of American investors.
But CNN insists that Cuba’s crumbling infrastructure gives it “an undeniable charm. A charm that, some worry, is in peril once the U.S. embargo lifts.” (VIDEO: Marco Rubio Slams Rand Paul On Cuba: ‘He Has No Idea What He’s Talking About’)
The online article went largely unnoticed, until a CNN International tweet promoting it with an image of Cubans in dire poverty drew widespread mockery.
See Cuba before American investors ruin it: http://t.co/TiwSK7ZV4T pic.twitter.com/BUBv61FJ3Y
— CNN International (@cnni) April 14, 2015
@cnni "See the idyllic famine in Darfur before US aid ruins it"
— Grauzone (@frankgrauzone) April 14, 2015
And the dumbest tweet of the day goes to @cnni (but it's still early) pic.twitter.com/ggRZkJ8Sok
— Eastwood (@Eagle_Vision) April 14, 2015
"Oooh honey, look at all the poverty! Here, take a selfie next to this starving family" RT @cnni: See Cuba before American investors ruin it
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 14, 2015
Wow… nice one CNN, because communist Cuba is so "quaint," dictatorship and all.. https://t.co/oQ3GHNfD1h
— Ben Smith (@bmcsmith92) April 14, 2015
'Poverty chic' made such by people who’ve never experienced either oppression or poverty http://t.co/v38KNGG1eW
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 14, 2015
.@adamgurri "Go visit Cuba before it is overrun with previously imprisoned gay poets!"
— Popehat (@Popehat) April 14, 2015