The city is filled with celebrities coming to party and hedge-fund managers sizing up their chances to make millions in one of the last bastions of communism. As an influx of American cash starts feeling imminent and inevitable, there's a giddy, frothy feeling in the air, at least the air breathed by Havana's privileged. While most Cubans remain on the outside looking in, Havana's high society has a gold-rush, center-of-the-universe pulse that hasn't existed here since Fidel Castro stormed down from the mountains in 1959 and threw out the last group of foreigners who saw Havana as their tropical playground.
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151015/cb--letter_from_havana-78d320a966.html
In other words, the capitalist takeover of Cuba will unleash the absolute worst the US has to offer on these relatively innocent people.
Shame on us.
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