I concur that we should relax a little. The restraints aimed at Cube, over the years, were primarily based on the fact that it was totalitarian.

On a lighter vein, they have a problem which even the Everglades doesn't offer -- tire-popping crab dances:

4 April '01                                         Land Crabs Close Cuban Road                                          As they do for a month or so each                                         northern hemisphere spring, daily                                         dawn and dusk migrations of land                                         crabs are making an historic                                         Cuban road impassable and                                         keeping tire-repairers busy.                                         Particularly hard hit is the 30km                                         (20mi) stretch of coast road to the                                         beach resort of Playa Giron, in the                                         Bay of Pigs, where millions of                                         crabs scuttle from inland swamps                                         to the sea to mate. Millions make it                                         but millions don't, becoming                                         bizarre road-kill and leaving a                                         thick, spikey, orange-pink mess on                                         the road that not only smells bad                                         but also punctures the tires of a                                         high proportion of passing cars.                                         One local who fixes flat tires                                         claims to repair up to 100 a day                                         during the crab-mating season.     

								At                                         the recent conference held at                                         Playa Giron marking the 40th                                         anniversary of the Bay of Pigs                                         invasion, Cuban officials warned                                         conference-goers that they'd have                                         to leave by 4pm in order to miss                                         the dusk migration and get back                                         to Havana. Locals claim that if the                                         1500 CIA-trained invaders who                                         tried to overthrow Fidel Castro in                                         April 1961 had actually managed                                         to get ashore, they wouldn't have                                         got far without a lot of spare tires.

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