In Cuba you will not find billboards of the big names like Nike and Coca-Cola. What you will see is billboards with revolutionary icons and messages. Nostalgia Little has changed in the Cuban capital of Havana over the last forty years. The old city centre with its colonial buildings is in a derelict state and has hardly been touched by modern times. Everywhere groups of Cubans are hanging out, talking and smoking cigars.
Salsa music sounds from behind the wooden doors and French windows.
Classic American cars from the fifties slowly drive past. It makes you feel nostalgic. There is little, and certainly no obtrusive advertisements, to remind you of the present. The United States has been boycotting Cuba for decades because of its communist system and because of the nationalisation of American property, just after the revolution of 1959. The memories of those days are kept alive by large billboards with revolutionary logos.