A Rotting, Decrepit Place

Kerry Howley | September 28, 2005

The U.S. Treasury Department will not allow U.S. conservationists to contribute funds to the restoration of Ernest Hemingway's Cuban villa. The place has been deemed a tourist attraction rather than an educational institution, and so donations are apparently the moral equivalent of handing Fidel a fistful of cash:

"We should be focusing on rebuilding the shattered lives of poor Cubans, rather than fixing buildings for one of the world's richest dictators, Fidel Castro," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, a steadfast supporter of the embargo, in a recent press statement.