Sin Island

By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 10/02/2026

Guest columnist.
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In a totalitarian hell like Castro's Cuba, with a restrictive system that maintains absolute surveillance over individuals and private lives, personal histories, legal frameworks, sexuality, and political power cannot be understood in isolation. Nothing is left to chance; even poverty and prostitution are matters of state. Let's take a look:

In Cuba, relationships with minors are not criminalized. Girls can marry from the age of 14 with their parents' consent. This was the legal loophole Maradona's drug-addicted ex-boyfriend used to maintain a "romance" with 16-year-old Mavys Álvarez. This affair, moreover, had the consent of Fidel Castro.

In 2001, already an adult and with a teenage daughter, Mavys Álvarez was interviewed by www.infobae.com, on that occasion she said:

Maradona covered my mouth so I couldn't scream, so I couldn't say anything, and he abused me. My mother came to see me that day at the house where we were staying in Havana, and Diego wouldn't open the bedroom door for her. My mother knocked, and he didn't answer. He raped me. That's what happened.

But Maradona isn't the only case. In cities like Havana and Matanzas, which are popular tourist destinations, it's very common to see men over forty accompanied by fifteen-year-old girls. In the vast majority of cases, the young women sold their virginity for between $1,000 and $2,000, an amount their parents could never have earned through honest work. Yes, the revolution has made the family's future dependent on how much you get for your teenage, virgin daughter. But let's continue reviewing the list of celebrities and intellectuals linked to sex trafficking on the island.

Gabriel García Márquez, besides being the messenger between Fidel Castro and Pablo Escobar, used to travel to Cuba to satisfy his sodomitic desires with young men. In the words of Juan Reynaldo Sánchez:

García Márquez was a frequent, pampered, and privileged visitor to Cuba from the 1970s onward, with direct access to Fidel Castro, exclusive residences, and closed circles, especially on Cayo Piedra. Private parties with young companions selected by the cultural apparatus were commonplace.

In the case of Silvio Rodríguez, the official troubadour of the tyranny, there are judicially documented cases of relationships with very young women in the 70s and 80s. Silvio publicly acknowledged having had multiple simultaneous relationships while he was a protected artist of the State.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, promoters of feminism and confessed pedophiles, visited Cuba in 1960. Their fascination with Cuban youth and the eroticization of the "new man" is documented in diaries and letters.

However, child trafficking was not confined to the borders of the Caribbean Sea, but expanded along with the shadow of Castro-Chavismo. In my book, *Socialism of the 21st Century: Crime, Dictatorship, and Poverty in the Americas*, I show how the Cuban embassy in Bolivia covered up Evo Morales's abuses of minors, even within its own offices.

American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who ultimately committed suicide in jail before facing trial, had at least one documented meeting with the Cuban dictator. This is confirmed by several international sources and a photograph revealed by The New York Times, found among Epstein's belongings in his Manhattan residence. It's not surprising that Epstein and Castro engaged in shady dealings, as Fidel was accustomed to treating the Cuban population like merchandise.

In conclusion, while the dictatorship delivers speeches about the dignity of the Cuban people, the population is forced to satisfy the base desires of the world's depraved. Cuba is the Disneyland of perverts.

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