[GeronL]

Those people HAVE to play act for tourists, its called a Potemkin Village

[Veto!]

Right. It's all an act.

When the official guide who did the running commentary on the tour bus from Havana to Pinar discovered that we were Americans, she took us aside at a rest stop and asked about getting some documents translated so she could make her getaway to NY. Then she hopped back on the bus and continued spewing commie propaganda. A lot of Italians on that bus...they were very hostile to being fed krep.

Virtually everyone we ran into in Havana hated Castro with all their hearts and souls...but I have no way of estimating how many Cubans in the countryside would remain loyal to a continuation of his regime.