"just comped by friendly Cubans" ?????

Why would she put "friendly Cubans" at potentially serious risk with their own government by staying in what seem to be described as houses unlicensed to rent to foreign guests?
I have been told that the house can even be confiscated for this infraction.


Here is a blog post from American journalist and longtime Havana resident C.G. about posadas, rooms Cuban couples rent short term to get away from family for an intimate moment. According to her writings, your heroine stayed in some of these.
https://hereishavana.com/2017/05/28/...-cuban-posada/
C.G. describes one: "no window, no toilet paper, no hot water, one pillow, one towel and an Igloo cooler on the floor filled with ice .....The stench of cheap air freshener permeated everything – the sheets, my hair, ...clothes, even the stale air stank. "


IMO the title of the post should not be "How Safe is Cuba?" (because it proves less about how safe the country is and more about simply how much of a novelty foreigners are in the countryside there), but "How self-centered (and selfish) are foreigners?" about their own agenda, enough to put those who help them at risk.