Another great article, Lau. My dad was in Cuba in ‘48 and my Brother in Law is in the Cigar biz and has been there a couple of times over the past 10 years or so. Havana Club Rum has gone downhill and so have the cigars, but we all would like to see some free market resurgence. Excellent point about the US embargo having little effect and no excuse for internal bureaucratic failure while Cuba traded with multinationals.

I worked with some Russians a few years ago who lived through the collapse and heard amazing and often hilarious stories of survival through the transition to a semi-free market.

Keep up the good work,

Jonathan