This country, Cuba, couldn't be more different than all the "Less Traveled" countries we've been to. Papua New Guinea is very poor and anthropologically isolated, Saudi Arabia is repressed yet relatively rich and modern, and Burma seems like an innocent child just now escaping from an abusive regime. But Cuba is caught in a '50s time warp. Castro seized power in 1959 ("La Revolucion") and imposed communist rule, and the country seems stuck ever since. The first thing you see upon departing the airport is a Che billboard, and at the end of our stay I realized there are *no* billboards, signs or anything else advertising any commercial product whatsoever. Only signs promoting La Revolucion!
While they are proud of a literacy rate that exceeds the US's, and by all accounts a first rate healthcare system, their infrastructure is neglected (see pic above) and many of the cars on the roads are American cars ca. 1950 (see below).
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