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Yep, I know that, Thanks Daniel. I thought about including Franco.

I don't believe that Castro was a commie from the gitgo, he was forced into his relationship with the USSR because the American mafia and their Batista allies in Miami, immediately sanctioned and embargoed Cuba.

By the way, in my years in Panama, i would attend embassy and rep parties., not the official ones but the ones held by employees.

On one roof top party, always almost roof tips in the evening when it was cool, while talking with this Swedish gal from the Swedish embassy, a Panamanian joined the conversation.

He was employed in the free port of Colon. Colon is a city and port on the Atlantic side, Panama city is on the Pacific side.

He told us that he was Cuban and his job was to fulfill orders from Havana, see that they are properly packed and shipped in a container.

The Cuban elite, wanted for nothing, because of the free port, and a lot of sanctioned goods, and medicines got to Havana through the free port including auto parts.

Cuban streets are full of "classic cars" but only on the outside, lift the hood, check he suspension the drive chain, and you find parts machined in Cuba and parts manufactured in Japan.. A Mitsubishi Engine in a 1955 Chevy.

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