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[Minstrel Boy]

Imperial sex

BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD—Special for Granma International

AT the end of June 5,000 female and male prostitutes invaded the Chilean city of Valparaiso to welcome 500 uniformed visitors from the United States, whose president is accusing Cuba of promoting sexual tourism.

While President Bush’s terrible blunder concerning the island was so grotesque that even his own media hastened to refute it – including The Miami Herald where travelers can always encounter a wide range of "exotic" ads explicit in their offers – the presence of the workers in the sex industry in the Chilean port city was only too real.

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"We are working specifically with the most vulnerable risk groups," Health Minister Aníbal Vivaceta informed La Estrella of Valparaiso, without going any further into the scale of damage caused by imperial tourism.

The contingent of prostitutes who gathered there to offer their services included a significant number of Chileans, but also a large number of Argentines, Brazilians, Bolivians, Peruvians and even Colombians, attracted by the news agency coverage.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/julio/juev29/32sexo.html