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INTRODUCTION Isolated from the Western world for over thirty years, Cuba burst back onto the international tourist scene in the early 1990s and hasnt looked back since. Shaped by one of the twentieth centurys longest surviving revolutions, until recently Cubas image had been inextricably bound up with its politics. Even five decades after Fidel Castro and the rebels seized power, Cubas long satiny beaches, offshore cays and jungle-covered peaks the defining attractions of neighbouring islands played almost no part in the popular perception of this communist state in the Caribbean. Now, having opened the floodgates to global tourism, the country is changing and Cuba today is characterized as much as anything by a frenetic sense of transition as it shifts from socialist stronghold to one of the Caribbeans major tourist destinations, running on capitalist dollars. Yet at the same time, it can seem to visitors that nothing has changed for decades, even centuries. Cut off from the capitalist world until the end of the Cold War, and only just emerging from a chronic economic crisis, the face of modern-day Cuba is in many respects frozen in the past the classic American cars, moustachi

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Author

Fiona McAuslan; Matthew Norman

Publisher

Rough Guides ; Penguin Books USA Inc. [distributor

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781858285207

Category

travel

Subjects

Travel, Language Learning, Lifestyle

Rating

4.2 / 5 (76 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14