The recent crash of a Boeing 737 in Cuba, killing 112 of its 113 passengers, is the latest indication of the Cuban regime’s pervasive disregard for human life; it infiltrates even its civil aviation practices.
In Cuba’s totalitarian system, the state is both absolute owner and supreme regulator. It seeks to profit from its commercial aviation at the same time that it is charged with its safety; all the while, it is free of any accountability, as the judiciary is fully subordinated to the executive branch and an independent press as well as civil society institutions are proscribed. Absent transparency, oversight, and legal recourse, the lives of all who fly are perennially in peril. .
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