How did you achieve that remarkable effect Amos? Anyway, here it is in a more leigible format:

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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