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"Do you realise that every blade of grass is a different shade of green?" - from My Voice Will Go With You
,che guevara,cuba,t-shirt
cuban cigars....are they still illegal ( or is it only in america?)
i read once that alberto korda was once arrested in a cuban bank because he was taking a picture of his own picture on the wall, and they didn't believe him when he told them who he was.
paintist: only in the US, I think. I doubt my dad would go so far as to smuggle presents past customs for me. Especially when he Disapproves of smoking.
mf: from what my Dad said, it's pretty hard to point a camera anywhere in Cuba without taking a picture of a picture of Fidel, Che or one of the other revolutionary heros.
ah. this was then though...
Paintist - only in America.
"Don't think of it as supporting their economy; think of it as burning their fields." - Kinky Friedman.
;)
my son, Bear, lived and worked in Cuba, part of Canada World Youth programme. He loved it, and the Cuban people. His job was to sort Cohiba cigars in a tabaqueria. found out here that they cost a fortune. All things Cuban are illegal in the US as they have a trade restriction against them. But you can buy Cuban cigars here, and Cristal beer is always sold out. And yes, Che and Fidel are everywhere on the walls, along with a lot of slogans. The US is 70 miles away, and they truly expect to be attacked. again.'specially if Fidel dies.. sorry to be so fulsome.
I wore a red RATM hoodie with Che on when I was a wee-teenager and pretending I was a rebel! Ah, youth!
