A decade ago, while working for a travel magazine, I got into a conversation one day with a few colleagues about which countries, for moral reasons, we would never write about. One person said Saudi Arabia, until it allowed women to drive. Another mentioned Uganda, or any country that persecuted gays.
I wouldn’t have said Jamaica back then; in fact, that year I visited Jamaica and wrote a short, positive piece about one of its hotels. However, today if I had to pick a country whose economy I refuse to support, it would be Jamaica, the island nation long defined by beaming smiles, party music, and the all-inclusive resort model, which it invented.