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Spanish Hotel Giant Meliá Exits Cuba, Crushing Communist Regime’s Tourism Profits

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2026/07/22/spanish-hotel-giant-melia-exits-cuba-crushing-communist-regimes-tourism-profits/

The Spanish hospitality firm Meliá Hotels International announced on Tuesday that it would end all its operations in Cuba by July 24, citing “notable difficulties of an operative, legal, economic, and financial nature” of doing business there.

Meliá is a global hotel giant and has long been among the companies profiting most handsomely from doing business with the Communist Party of Cuba. For decades it was responsible for running some of the most lavish hotel properties in Cuba, which all international companies must do through the regime conglomerate Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA) as per communist law. Meliá’s exit from the market follows President Donald Trump approving expanded sanctions on GAESA and its leadership, as well as Cuba largely running out of fuel and, thus, electricity, resulting in a critical drop in tourism.

Cuba’s ongoing electricity crisis began years ago as the Castro regime failed to properly maintain the nation’s power grid, siphoning nearly all of the country’s money into the prodigious Castro family estate. It was exacerbated significantly in January by the arrest of longtime ally Nicolás Maduro, the former dictator of Venezuela, who provided free or highly discounted oil to the island nation for years, allowing luxury tourism areas to use generators independent of the power grid to provide customers with electricity. Maduro’s successor Delcy Rodríguez halted the oil subsidy program and Cuba’s other political allies – including Russia, China, and Iran – have failed to step in and refuel the country, leaving it largely powerless.

In a statement on Tuesday, Meliá, which previously managed 34 hotels nationwide, announced that it would no longer operate anywhere in Cuba by July 24. The independent outlet Cubanet reported that the company declared its intentions to exit Cuba to Spain’s National Securities Market Commission on Tuesday. This means the Meliá brand will no longer be present in the country, nor will its subsidiaries  manage hotel business such as stocking its restaurants and rooms with toiletries – a significant challenge in the daily life of the average Cuban, who cannot afford lodgings in tourist hotels.

In its declaration to the Spanish government, Meliá stated it would work to ensure an “orderly transition” from its management to, presumably, management by the Cuban state directly. Cubanet reported that the hotels could still continue to function under new names and controlled by the Communist Party, but they could no longer benefit from the Meliá name nor its logistics for stocking the venues.

Meliá had already announced that it had a foot out the door in June, following American sanctions directly targeting GAESA, the Communist Party entity that manages tourism and nearly every other key profit center of the Castro regime. A month ago the company announced it would stop managing 15 of its 34 hotels, stating that it was necessary as “a consequence of a combination of unforeseen circumstances beyond the capacity of the management or actions” of its leadership. At the time, reports indicated that one of the affected hotels would be the Gran Hotel Bristol Habana, which Cuban locals identified as the location used to house the celebrity leftists who participated in the pro-communist “Nuestra América” convoy in March. The convoy was internationally condemned for supporting the island’s repressive tyranny and engaging in crude activities such as allegedly making impoverished Cuban children dance for cookies.

The State Department announced sanctions on GAESA, the Cuban tourism corporation, in May as a form of targeting “the heart of Cuba’s kleptocratic communist system.”

“Controlling an estimated 40 percent or more of the island’s economy, GAESA is involved in various sectors of the Cuban economy and is designed to generate income not for the Cuban people, but only for the benefit of its corrupt elites,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio observed at the time. “According to recent public estimates, GAESA’s revenues are likely more than three times the state’s budget, and GAESA likely controls up to $20 billion in illicit assets.”

moar at link

>>24861063

clearly a baby chupacabra

it's in their blood

“Criminal Sexual Conduct”: Sheriff’s Department Honors Muslim Imam . . . Then Arrests Him

https://thelibertydaily.com/criminal-sexual-conduct-sheriffs-department-honors-imam-then/

A Muslim imam who in 2024 was honored by a sheriff’s office with a “public service award” now has been arrested by that same office on suspicion of sexual assault.

It is the RAIR Foundation that is reporting on the scandal that has developed in South Carolina’s Richland County.

It involves imam Louai Elkhatib, a prominent official in the local Muslim community with responsibilities at a mosque and school.

The foundation reported, “In September 2024, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department proudly celebrated Louai Elkhatib, 55, with a public award for ‘5 years of continuous service’ in their ProACT community program.”

It cited photographs showing him smiling and shaking hands with department officials.

Then this year he was arrested, for allegedly “serially sexually assaulting women in his mosque and school.”

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>>24861058

this is

https://youtu.be/0YAA7nivQng

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>>24861003

I dont need you

heh

>>24861069

ı miss his dreds.

>>24861070

they been working on it dawg

shit be deep

imagine trying to break this mindset:

>rape case 2006

>Saudi Sharia court sentenced the perpetrators to varying sentences involving 100 to 1,000 lashes and imprisonment up to ten years for four of them.

>The court also sentenced the two victims to six months in prison and 90 lashes each for "being alone with a man who is not a relative" in a parked car.

>The appeals court doubled the victims' sentences in late 2007 as punishment for the heavy media coverage of the event

..

..

>In December 2007, the Saudi King Abdullah issued an official pardon for the two victims

>>24861073

so does he

>>24861070

NO DEALS UNTIL THESE WOMEN ARE AlLOWED TO SHOW THEIR ANKLES, ELBOWS AND KNEES!!!

Fuck

they were great

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industrial funk.

>>24861079

yep

>>24861039

ah hem.. in muh best Elmer Fud voice

Nuquear Bombs

discernment,

>>24861071

prey.

>>24861059

Where's eBot, Mr. Nig? I want to call him a choice name.

Trump pushes Saudi Arabia to NORMALIZE ties with Israel

Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy has the latest on Saudi Arabia normalizing ties with Israel and its push to join the Abraham Accords

3:09

https://youtu.be/0VI_ZUoo1Pc

>>24861078

Men are so stupid! Stupid fucking rules!

>>24861084

'Elongapes' was eBot's top charting hit

dammit jim.

>>24861087

It was a straight banger, to be sure.

>>24861091

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>>24861092

THIS IS THE MEME OF THE BREAD

You suck at this

>>24861026

>>24861063

>>24861095

Good choice! …and the right choice.

>e07ae1

…Says the obviously useless doomfaggot.

>>24861082

>best Elmer Fud voice

that was good. you really got it.

>>24861095

she should cover her elbows. for modesty.

>>24861059

Greetings Mr. Pigimitty

>>24860999

you may be blue-light toxic, anon.

>>24861113

Pigothy!

Heard about this case and wondered if picking butler pa wasn't random.

United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down key provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA), a cornerstone of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Court held in a 6-3 decision that while Congress has broad authority to tax and spend for the general welfare, it cannot use this power to regulate agricultural production, which is reserved to the states under the Tenth Amendment

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https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_v._Butler

>>24861116

>>24861116

>Pigothy!

OMG. Now we're gonna have the Book of Pigothy.

I wonder if it will be canonical.