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I Went to the Vedado District to the Hotel Nacional. In 1933 300 Officers of the Machado and Cespedes Regimes Sought the Protection of U.S. Ambassador Sumner Wells Here After the Sergeants' Coup of Fulgencio Batista and Others, Wells Simply Left Leaving the Officers to a Dire Fate. In 1946 the Largest Gangster Conference Ever was staged Here by Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, Cuba was Basically Ruled by Lansky from 1946 to 1959 When the Good Times Rolled. I Talked to 2 Old-Timers Who Had Seen "Superman," Flyers Were Passed Out at the Airport (Featured in Godfather 11, Oh My God). Died a Young Man, Sexed Himself to Death. Went to the Neocropolis Cristobal Colon Where Many of Cuba's Past Bigs Are, Maximo Gomez, Hero of Cuba's War for Independence, Eduardo Chibas Who in 1951 Blew his Brains Out While Making a Broadcast in Protest of Cuba's Corrupt Government (Maybe Some of Our Broadcasters Want to Protest Something). At His Funeral Castro Leapt on Chibas' Grave Vowing Retribution. Went to the Plaza de la Revolucion Where in 1980 a Million Cubans Gathered to See Pope John Paul 11. Went to the University of Havana, a Nice Campus but They Needed New Desks for Sure. Cuba is 750 Miles Long with a Horrible Broken-Down Highway the Length, it's Been a Long Time Since the Russians Left. I Decided, Correctly as Usual, that I Should Go to Cuba Before the Trade Embargo was Lifted and Everybody Headed Down, Cuba Doesn't Have the Infrastructure to Support Tourism Very Well Now Much Less Then. It's Often Hard to Get a Vehicle from One City to Another, Thrice I Went to Get a Bus and Couldn't Get On, I Traveled by Trucks Where People Might Get on With Chickens and Pigs and by Private Car With Maybe 3 Others or Just Myself. All the While I Was in Cuba I Had a Real Bad Cough and Had It 10 Days After, if Somebody Has Bad Respiratory Problems They Might Think Again About Going to Cuba. As You're Walking Along Trucks and Other Large Vehicles Pass Spewing Out Volumes of Black Exhaust. The Pope, Joe Ratzinger, had a Cousin his Same Age and When he was "14" his Cousin, a Down's Syndrome, was Taken Away by the Nazis. A Little While Later the Family was Told that he Had Died. 24 Years Ago Gene Stallings, Who was the Head Coach of the Arizona Cardinals and Later Won a National Championship at Alabama, did a Moving Commercial with his Son, John, a Down's Syndrome, not Ashamed of Him.