"but they laugh and roll their eyes when foreigners request it, because it has become such a cliche over the past 60 years (in Cuba, I mean)."
Well when you translate the lines I chose, I can see why.


For the sincere friend
Who gives me his honest hand.
Those poor people have suffered at the hands of their neighbours since I was 5.

Never smoked a La Habana but my first cigarette was definitely a Number 6.