Children are in school. Doctors make house calls. And families occasionally go to the beach for the weekend, drink rum and eat ice cream. No hard feelings Most important, to the surprise of American visitors, Cubans show no hint of bad feelings toward their neighbors to the north. The two governments may be at odds, but the two peoples, for the most part, see no reason to get caught up in it.
Relations are warm.
That impressive warmth can, however, lead visiting Americans to take home an incomplete view of Cuba. Few American visitors, particularly officials, take the time to travel widely outside Havana. Few stay in homes of average Cubans, visit the places where electricity doesn't work consistently, where baths are taken in a bucket, where the wait for a bus to work can be hours long, where government permission is needed to buy a car. I'll be with him. But he ought to have some people come down and look at this.