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To: 8bits who wrote (60285)	5/4/2006 3:10:00 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Respond to of 110194

That's probably because the US companies had so many assets there. At the time of the Cuban revolution my dad was the only manufacturer's representative for Japanese companies there, had the whole island to himself (then the Japanese embargoed and put him out of business). The country had been dominated by US interests for a long time and it was quite a shock to the system when alliances changed and people had to get used to eating vulture soup from the USSR (they tried to pass them off as chickens but no chicken has a beak that big).