Cuba!
Cuba! Really, it’s prob the best explanation, an exclamation point following Cuba. It’s a country rich with so much, yet stuck in some parts which ironically are both a benefit and a possible deterrent for its people and visitors like me. Given my short stay, let alone this being my first visit (of more yet to come), at best these are my observations. I’d qualify my observations, however, into three distinct camps; political, economic, and cultural. Political. Sting, the musician, once wrote in a lyric, I hope the Russians love their children too. In this song “Russians”, Sting sang about the futility of the Cold War, how the deterrent of mutual destruction was anything but rational. And while I’ve never been to Russia, one of my observations was on the sheer futility of the Cold War. Other than an ideology, there were no winners; least of all the people on both sides of the iron curtain. Zealots, on both side of the political spectrum, were ready to sacr