Cuban realities

Cuba - one of only two countries in the world do not sell Coca Cola. Other countries where a ban on trade in the drink was introduced in connection with the US sanctions, is North Korea.





United States annually pay the rent Cuba Guantanamo 4085 dollars. The Cuban government has not cashed a single check for the rent.



When Fidel Castro was 12, he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt to send him a ten-dollar bill, which he had never seen before.





A few hours before the signing of the embargo against Cuba, President John F. Kennedy in 1200 bought Cuban cigars.



In Cuba, one of the highest literacy rates in the world, is 99, 8%. In the US, this figure is slightly smaller - 99%.





Fidel Castro was born on Friday the 13th.





In 2009, the US government has secretly funded the creation of a social network in Cuba ZunZuneo, reminiscent of Twitter and designed to collect information about Cuban citizens and conducting anti-government propaganda. The US State Department has spent 630,000 dollars on the purchase of "likes" on Facebook for Cuban pro-American pages.





Fidel Castro once figured that would save 10 working days per year, if not shave.





By law, all government cars in Cuba are obliged to bring up hitchhikers.

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Once the CIA has planned a very exotic attempt on Fidel Castro. Was intended to poison the Cuban leader chemical that would provoke loss of his beard.

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Only 5% of Cubans have access to the Internet.

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Once in power, Fidel Castro ordered the destruction of all available in the country of the box with the game "Monopoly».

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Cubans were allowed to have cell phones until 2008.

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In the midst of the Cuban military crisis, there were more than 150 nuclear missiles.

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In Cuba, so many doctors that the government often sends them to work in the country where they are most in need.

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Fidel Castro was a big fan of John Lennon and even instructed to install a bronze statue of him, saying that "he was a true revolutionary».

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Until 1997 Christmas in Cuba was not an official holiday, until there came to visit Pope John Paul II.

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