[AppyPappy]

Note: Cuba trades with Europe and Canada. But for some reason, their inability to trade with the US keeps them down.

Or perhaps it IS the communism

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Cuba gets around the U.S. embargo in the following way, and I’m only speaking from my part of the world: U.S. products are shipped into Panama and are taken to the Free Zone in Colon (Atlantic side). From there, the products are shipped to Cuba. I don’t know how payment is made. Anyway, when I was in one of Cuba’s state stores, I saw very few (one?) U.S. product (can goods). It was something like a can of peaches. The major part of their can goods (the little they had) was from Europe.

This made me think that Castro and his cronies must be keeping the U.S. products for themselves. They certainly aren’t getting on the shelves; and unless the Free Zone has a lot of sales to Cuba, it wouldn’t be doing business with them.