Having recently been to Cuba I wanted to post a few observations. Of course staying in a tourist town is different than living with the natives does not give one a complete view. Most of the Cubans we met were more than happy to talk to us about their desperate situation. They are worried about what will happen when Castro dies and his brother takes over. They are afraid of a civil war but know that it's pretty much inevitable. They hope for a better future for themselves and their children. They live in desperate poverty the like of which I havent seen since Acapulco, but that's another story. The dilema is two fold, one on hand we as Canadians like to go there because it's cheap, but if we stopped going for a year there would be a revolution, in my mind. They would loose all the tourist money from us and I believe it would lead to a quicker decline in Castro's power.