I have went to Cuba 3 times in the last 2 years. After what I seen and talked to the citizens of Cuba.. Cuba is a very oppressive government. I have good friends there now and I feel the government needs to change. My friends haven't been able to buy potatoes for over 6 months. When they did it was limited to 5 pounds a month. Yes, they have free health care but no medicine to treat ( I have took alot of medicine to them) Local Cubans can't buy beef yet there are cows all over the island. In Cuba if you kill another person you get 15 years in jail, if you kill a cow you get 26 years in jail. Everything in Cuba is broke, trains, carnival rides, etc

As now as a few years ago the whole world vacations in Cuba except the US. the money made from tourism and exporting beef go to support rogue regimes ie Venezuela. And i have seen and talked to and helped Venezuelan refugees that went to Colombia.

I would be perfectly happy not to be able to go back to Cuba if it meant a government change for my friends but I would miss them. And I wouldn't even whine about it because me as an American have many options for my vacations.

I really didn't want to get political but you really can't talking about Cuba.

Wendell