Cuba has long endured foreign influences ranging from conquest and military interventions to investment and tourism. During the past centuries, Cuba’s prolific sugar fields brought huge sums of overseas investment, as Americans were Cuba’s main sugar trade clients based on our ravenous appetite for sugar in the daily diet. Sugar was freely bartered by the thousands of tons to U.S. customers in exchange for every U.S. product that ordinary Cubans might want or need, from toot

The world-famous Ernest Hemingway was a man whose life encompassed more adventure and historical prominence than perhaps any other writer. He took part in both World Wars, as an ambulance driver in the first, and as a makeshift leader to a French militia in the second. He survived two plane crashes, four wives, refereed underground boxing matches, and even took part in many fabled fistfights of his own! He was a “man’s man”, and yet amongst his turbulent life, he wrote sev