Capitol Hill Cubans blogger Mauricio Claver Carone has lashed out at the Havana Journal’s Rob Sequin – and the Miami Herald article about his new document-retrieval business called Cuba City Hall.
Sequin, Capitol Hill Cubans says, has championed a vulgar sex site that denigrate and insult Cubans. (The lewd stuff has apparently been taken down.) He called the Herald article a “virtual advertisement” despite the fact that it revealed that other businesses charge less than 10 percent of Cuba City Hall’s hefty fees.
“Seriously, Cuba is the place to get laid... man, woman, straight or gay! There may not be freedom of speech but there certainly is freedom of sex,’’ he quoted Sequin.
“Now, Sequin is looking to financially prey on the same community he's shamelessly insulted,” the blog says. “For now, we strongly urge all Cubans to take a close look at Sequin's sex-sites before contracting his services.”
From Sequin: "Go to SexInCuba.com and decide for yourself if Mauricio's libelous statements are true."
On OFAC: "From start to finish, our entire proprietary Cuban document retrieval process is in full compliance with OFAC regulations.
- Frances Robles
By all means, follow Rob Sequin's suggestion and go to SexInCuba.com. There's plenty of advertising on that site which does, in fact, provide monetary compensation for the site's purveyor and host, while publishing and hosting photographs and videos of skimpily clad Cuban women and including a whole separate page on "Jineteras" - Prostitutes. And, while there may be some "editorial" content on said site, and Sequin may not be "technically" breaking any laws, the result is painfully clear. Sequin is trampling on very thin moral and ethical ice by profiting from the misfortune of the Cuban people and anyone with even a reasonable semblance of honesty and integrity understands this perfectly well.
The Herald should have done proper research prior to publishing the piece on Sequin but it didnt, and as such, is subject to scrutiny and apt for criticism.
Posted by: Val Prieto | June 07, 2011 at 01:27 PM
No defense for either hyenas fighting each other. For the previous poster, why go all the way to Boston. Okeechoobee our South Beach is much closer to you.
Posted by: chuck1938 | June 07, 2011 at 10:40 PM