Americans have been the ones who were losing out because of the paranoid-A-commies U.S. Cuban policy. Currently Cuba is a popular tropical destination for many non-Americans - nice hotels, sunny beaches, great food & music. I'm a U.S. citizen. A couple of years ago I looked into going to Cuba for a two-week "medical vacation". It costs about 80%-90% less to have common medical procedures done there. Cuba has one of the highest ratios of doctors to patients. Their doctors are reputed to be highly-trained, and skilled. Fortunately the operation ended up not being needed. But for the price of having it done in the U.S., I could've gone to Cuba, stayed in nice hotels, had the operation, and still come back to the U.S. with over half left of what I would've spent here. It's fairly easy for Americans to visit Cuba now. They'll give Americans a visa, which doesn't involve having the U.S. passport stamped. And it means traveling from a non-U.S. airport. In my case I was planning to go via Mexico City. Still tentatively planning to do it, if fortune favors me....
what am I saying.. I quit smoking tobacco... , but Ill be damned If I had me a real Cuban cigar, Id smoke that shit..:sifone:
Cuba is famous for quality cigars, yes. But there's a big mystique that they're the best in the world, "rolled on a campesina's thigh". But you can get the same quality of cigar, "thigh-rolled", from the Dominican Republic, right in the same growing zone as Cuba. Smoke 'em up