A single family in Cuba, the Castro family, controls and effectively owns everything on the island. Their corruption is well documented, in addition to the corruption of the communist dictatorship's officials. The fact that every major transaction that takes place on the island must pass through the hands of what is basically a crime family
'Raúl Castro's family controls GAESA parcel delivery, and tourism, while those of Guillermo García Frías and Juan Almeida Bosque run the agri-food business and the monopoly on imports. The Miguel Díaz-Canel and Manuel Marrero tandem, wallowing in tourism dividends, is raking it in.'