Cuba was better than I expected on several levels. It's not the squalor you might imagine, at least not in the areas we saw. I think the poverty levels are comparable to many of the islands in the Caribbean.
They (the Cubans) generally don't have much of an idea of what is going on outside their own country though. So their attitudes definitely lack any sense of urgency to get things done. We saw this over and over with the hotel staff.
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