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...Warner, trekked to the warehouse to see Kok's prototype. Not only was Kok not wearing the space suit used in clean rooms, but he also demonstrated that his machine could produce high-quality discs even as he stood beside it and puffed away on his ever present Havana cigar...
...government has spent $90 million in scarce hard currency on staples like rice, wheat and chicken. Now Castro and his buyers would like to sample brand-name products. This fall more than 150 American companies such as specialty pastamaker Bushel 42 and Spam producer Hormel will travel to Havana to show off Napa Valley wines, soy burgers, candy bars and even bottled water at a food and agribusiness exhibition. "The focus for American companies is how to create brand awareness in Cuba," says John Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council. As for Castro, who enjoyed...
...economy is looking up, the tourists have arrived, and you can't get a decent table. Whatever these writers were looking for there, it's long gone--these books are like lost postcards, smudged and crumpled, their point of origin already vanished. Where did Hemingway go after Paris? Havana. Well, at least the food is better there than Budapest...
When U.S. Congressman Jeff Flake visited Havana recently, promoting legislation to let Americans travel freely to Cuba, Fidel Castro had his top aides meet with Flake to ask whether the measure could really pass. "Yes," Flake said, "and tell Castro that if he doesn't behave, we're going to bring down the whole darn embargo...
Everyone laughed, but it wasn't altogether a joke. The not so well-kept secret in Havana is that Castro, 75, has always been a fan of the 40-year-old U.S. trade embargo against his communist island. El bloqueo, as Cubans call the "blockade," has helped Castro deflect blame for his economic blunders. Whenever the U.S. has looked poised to end the embargo, Castro has managed to unleash an outrage that has kept it alive, as in 1996, when his air force shot down and killed four Cuban exiles from Miami flying unarmed small planes near Havana...