Yes. They are exactly correct. It's all about "business"-men trying to make money off the World's oldest profession as legal pimps with political protection. This is the new paradigm for Boca Chica as well and the Women to be found walking the streets there are generally undesireable as brothel employees for one reason or another. Between the brothels and the AI's which cater to the "sex-tourist" (ie Viking, etc) these fat cat owners are planning to control the sex industry and you can bet that the Women who are putting out all the work to empower this cash machine will get the short end of the stick (pun intended) as these guys and their political pals grow rich off them.
Funny you should mention Aruba. Paid sex is legal only in the government licensed and inspected "girlie bars" of St. Nicolaas which is at the funky end of the island right next to the Valero refinery. All of the girls there are Colombian imports on 90 day "fake waitress" visas and see on average 5-15 clients a day, every day but Sunday. A good one will make $25K-$35K (US) in three months and return to their lives back home free of whatever immediate debt or impossible situation with a pocket full of short term solutions. In the D.R. the talent at the casas is Dominican. No one controls their travel documents (and thus their movement) like in the N.A. and thus they are able to come and go as they please. Girls who aren't dormitoried at the casas are free to wheel and deal on their own and the goal of most is to develop a clientelle independently from the casas and split their money with nobody. There is also the great "Gringo Lotto" to look forward to so these casa owners have found that in order to be successful at their endeavor to herd cats (another pun intended) they need to dormitory a certain number of girls, whom they recruit from outside the local area. Look at Sto. Dgo. for example where a majority of the girls who work at the "tourist area" casas are recruited from the campos, dormitoried on site and released only when salida fee payment is recorded. They are even fined if they don't return on time. They get paid on regular paydays and have a (biweekly) quota to fill in order to be retained from month to month. A couple of very successful Cubans currently own the most profitable tourist casas in the Capital using this (the Aruba/St. Maarten/ Curacao) formula and now it's selling like Pum-Pum (hot cakes didn't seem appropriate here).
The rest of the clubs and girls in the City work exactly like they always did but very few of those are known to tourists. This fact leads me to believe that the new paradigm is only for implementation in "tourist sex zones" and that the rest of the country has no plans to change.
The "Wall" isn't to shield the tourists from seeing what happens in the "zone". It's to keep them from polluting the surrounding environment while they're in town with all that loose cash they bring. It will be collected by professionals who understand how the trickle down theory is supposed to be implemented, not a bunch of amateur hookers.
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