They need to stop researching these speeches on the Internet
Or at leaststay away from the term papers sites.
News: Bush's search for clean Cuban hookers goes awry (28 July 04)
Bush's recent statement that "the dictator welcomes sex tourism" comes not from a Castro speech - as Bush claimed - but from an undergrad essay by a US student who made the quote up.
ASHLEE VANCE
Register
CHICAGO -- Cuban prostitutes have received an unwelcome compliment from President Bush courtesy of an Internet search gone wrong.
Earlier this month, Bush launched an attack against Fidel Castro and his alleged promotion of sex tourism in Cuba. Our fearless leader dug way back to a 1992 speech given by Castro to prove his case.
"The dictator welcomes sex tourism," Bush told a room of law enforcement officials in Florida, according to the Los Angeles Times . "Here's how he bragged about the industry," Bush said. "This is his quote: 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world.'"
As it turns out, Bush had lifted that quotation not from an actual Castro speech but rather from a 2001 essay written by then Dartmouth University undergraduate Charles Trumbull . In the essay, Trumbull did appear to quote a Castro speech about prostitution. Sadly, the student made the quotation up.
According to officials, the actual quotation from Castro's 1992 speech reads as follows: "There are hookers, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist. Those who do so do it on their own, voluntarily…. We can say that they are highly educated hookers and quite healthy, because we are the country with the lowest number of AIDS cases."
