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Tourism Industry Those involved in the tourism business who get tipped in dollars are definitely better off than the people whose income is strictly in pesos. ... An example of the economic schism is seen through an example of a basket of one pound of pork chops, rice and black beans, two pounds of tomatoes, three limes and one head of garlic. The basket cost 43.40 pesos in Havana in August 2000. It would take the economist 3.8 days to pay for this basket, a doctor 1.9 days, and a prostitute who receives $20 U.S. a day, 2.3 hours. Where is the incentive to spend long years studying to make a low salary in difficult conditions when a person could easily go into the tourism business and make easy money? The younger generation that has not had to make agonizing sacrifices for the revolution, like their parents, are the most encouraged by the lifestyle of the tourists. Students have been dropping out of school to take jobs surrounding tourism. Between 1990 and 1998, 46 percent of students dropped out of secondary schools and from those who continued their studies, between 1989 and 1998, 28 percent of graduate students left their studies.
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