Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Smokeless

I am not talking about my favorite powder for sniper rifle ammunition.
I am talking about the lastest in Cuba.
For all of you to know, the succession plan is working, we already received the first report from our new collaborator in Havana.
And she brings us what's hotter than the tip of a cigar in Havana right now, the smoking ban, as ordered by that old curmudgeon in fatigues.
Mean Mr. Kasstro decreed that there's no more cigar or cigarette smoking in the island that captivated Columbus with the sight of Indians smoking those old school stoogies through their noses.
Cigar and cigarrettes have been banned in almost every public place in Cuba.
And not only, they have been reduced in their rationing card quota. No, don't be surprised, Cubans have cigar and cigarrettes rationing. You would say, what about that fame of the best cigars, or the legendary cigarrettes prefered by the Hollywood stars of yesteryear (when we used to have patriotic Hollywood stars, no lefties and selfhating Jews that do not dare to defend Israel on these dark days)where are those cigars and cigarrettes?
Well, Mean Mr. Kasstro exports them. Then he produces some crappy crop to make Cubans sick, and hook'em on the vice. People say the the glue used in cigarretes is what is really adictive and cancerigenous, but that's not the point.
The point is that cigarrettes and cigars are nowhere to be found. Unless you go to your dear and friendly blackmarket operator, who will have the best of the best, in hard cold American dollars. Just for you, and for the tourist that comes with you.
Of course, this "measures for the health of people" are just a smokeless smoke curtain to mask the incapacities of producing a quality cigar. The land in Pinar del Rio got ravaged by the hurricanes, the best people in the tobacco industry are fleeing the country and they can be found anywhere from Madrid to Miami.
But there's another thing, Mean Mr. Kasstro is exporting seeds and finished product to, you guessed right, Venezuela. This is done with the hope of destroying the tobacco industries of other nations, and y'all know all the implications it has.
Then there is a flourishing industry of fake cigars in Cuba to be sold to tourists. And it's being fueled by this brand new cigar prohibition.
Plus the blackmarket sale of high end cigars and cigarrettes, that is going up the roof as we speak, you can buy a really good Cohiba for about $25 or $30 dollars. A piece I mean. It can easily climb to $50 depending on the quality and the vitola (sizes)and the roller who makes them.
Somehow the understanding in Havana is that Mean Mr. Kasstro and his associates have a hand on this blackmarket, since it's an open secret in Havana, and nobody's going to jail for that.
There's another branch to this blackmarket operation: contraband on fast boats. Do you think that those boats only carry cigars? What about Cubans, eager to have their chance in freedom? Well, what is going to Mexico and Central America alongside with the refugees. Cuban cigars, very well paid, that end up in the high gloss establishments of Mexico City and the most exclusive clubs and resorts. Oh, I forgot to mention that the refugees are also a very profitable cargo.
There are cigars coming to the States too, through the same method.
Cigars are the new cocaine, and its traffic is as profitable.
It's rumored in Cuba that raul caligula castro is in charge of the contraband.
If only the U.S. government understood that the only way to do away with the contraband human trafficking problem is one of this two options: get rid of Mean Mr. Kasstro and his gang or get rid of the dryfoot-wetfoot. But no, that's not an option.
As you see, all is about money. There are many people benefiting from the contraband, and of course a free Cuba would be an obstacle for this illegal trade.

1 Comments:

ziva said...

When fidel stole Cuba from its citizens, she was indeed a bountiful loot, a pearl of a paradise. After 47 years of rape and plunder he's running out of commodities to sell, and it takes money to finance his grip on power. So, he steals Cuban's already meager rations for resale and sells a dangerous road to freedom for his slaves to smugglers willing to take that risk for the right price. What next?

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