Longtime Newsweek correspondent Eleanor Clift, who now writes for The Daily Beast, fretted on the December 21 McLaughlin Group that deeper American involvement could wreck "unspoiled" communist Cuba:
“The rest of us are all going to be rushing to get to Cuba before it turns into Miami Beach, while it’s still that unspoiled, seemingly, place with the classic cars....People want to see Cuba as it is, before it becomes more developed.”