Cuba will be stranger more difficult for the boy to comprehend. When he returns, Cuba will look basically as it did when he left in November. Actually it ll look much as it did in 1959. Hardly anything on the Cuban landscape ever changes it just decays. Few houses have seen paint in the final half of the 20 th century.
Rum is cheap.
So is ice cream. Fidel is firmly in charge. But the subtle changes will be impossible for little Elian to miss. Home looks the same, except everyone, it seems, is sporting a new t-shirt emblazoned with Elian s image. Billboards everywhere display countless likenesses of the little boy.