Raul Castro betrays the Faith, and Fidel is too tired to shoot him. Wailing and gnashing of teeth heard from graves in Highgate Cemetery in London as heretics allow Cubans tiny slivers of free enterprise. Meyer Lansky actually crawls out of his grave with bags of casino chips, last seen staggering toward Havana.
Desmond Boylan
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Reuters/ Customers are entertained as they dine
inside the newly licensed restaurant "El Bedouino" in Havana, April 1,
2012. The restaurant is an example of how life is changing in Cuba since
President Raul Castro launched a string of limited economic reforms.
HAVANA — When
Ojacy Curbello and her husband opened a restaurant at their home in
Havana in late December, not a single customer showed up
It was a disheartening debut for Bollywood, the first Indian
restaurant in the Cuban capital. Curbello worried that their dream of
cashing in on recent reforms in this Communist-run country would
collapse.
The next day customers began trickling in. As word spread, the
trickle became a flood. Many nights the couple had to turn people away
or serve them at the family dining table and call in extra help. Today
they are planning to increase the 22-seat capacity by expanding their
1950s home and putting tables and a bar in what is now their bedroom.
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