CUBA Instructions What to Bring Food Drink

CUBA! Instructions

What to Bring Food, Drink, etc. 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 Famous Cubans 100 200 300 400 500 600 History Pasatiemp os (Hobbies) 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 Cuban Idiosyncrasie s 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

What to Bring 100 Currency, Credit Cards • 1 CUC = $1 USD, Moneda Nacional • CC & ATM won’t work • Bring Euros • Change $$ at airport

What to Bring 200 Rollup Thermarest Mattress If you are a family of 3 or 5

What to Bring 300 Toiletries, Rx, electronics… Don’t count on being able to buy anything including TP, wipes, soap, memory cards

What to Bring 400 Electricity & Cell Phone 110 V GSM 900

What to Bring 500 Swim Gear • • Mask & snorkel Water shoes Sunscreen Repellent

What to Bring 600 Notarized letter If travelling without both parents

What to Bring 700 Health Insurance • • Buy at Havana airport At ASISTUR Old Havana 2. 50 CUC/person/day Mandatory

What to Bring 800 VISA to enter Cuba • At airport in Mexico City • $35/person • Need to know address of Havana homestay

Food, Drink, etc. 100 National Drinks Coffee & rum Mojito, Daquiri, Cuba Libre Drink bottled water only

Food, Drink, etc. 200 Agricultural Products • • • Cigars Coffee Organic produce Sugarcane Oranges Rice

Food, Drink, etc. 300 Congris Rice & beans

Food, Drink, etc. 400 Ropa Vieja “Old Clothes” Pork or beef served with yucca or potato as well as plantains, unripe bananas and even corn

Food, Drink, etc. 500 Boliche eye round beef roast stuffed with chorizo browned in olive oil simmered until the meat is soft, then quartered potatoes added. Served with white rice and fried sweet plantains.

Food, Drink, etc. 600 Tostones Twice fried plantain slices

Food, Drink, etc. 700 Medianoche Staple served in Havana's night clubs midnight. Consists of roast pork, ham, mustard, Swiss cheese, and dill pickles. Made on soft, sweet egg dough bread similar to Challah rather than on the crustier Cuban bread of a Cuban sandwich.

Famous Cubans 100 Fidel & Raul Castro Fidel: Prime Minister 1959 -1976 President 1976 -2008 Raul: President 2008 -current

Famous Cubans 200 Celia Cruz Queen of Salsa https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=l. Ar. Go. Rh. Fr 4 E

Famous Cubans 300 Gloria Estefan Singer, songwriter and actress https: //youtu. be/ee. Kx. Q 9 LQAB 4? t=11 s

Famous Cubans 400 Desi Arnaz • musician, actor, television producer, writer and director • Ricky Ricardo on the “I Love Lucy” show

Famous Cubans 500 Jose Canseco Major League Baseball Player (1985– 2001)

Famous Cubans 600 Jose Marti • Poet, essayist and journalist. • One of the great turn-of-the-century Latin American intellectuals. • One of his poems from the book, "Versos Sencillos" was adapted to the song "Guantanamera", which has become the definitive patriotic song of Cuba

History 100 Cuban Revolution 1953– 59. Armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26 th of July Movement against the U. S. -backed authoritarian government of President Batista, replacing his government with a revolutionary socialist state. Later reformed becoming the Communist Party in Oct 1965

History 200 Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary who joined Fidel Castro and played a pivotal role in the Cuban Revolution that deposed the Batista regime

History 300 Bay of Pigs Invasion • Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion undertaken by the CIA-sponsored Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961 • Intended to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro

History 400 Guantanamo Bay • The US assumed territorial control over Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban–American Treaty of Relations • It is the home of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which is governed by the US that President Obama is trying to close

History 500 Cuban Missile Crisis 13 -day (October 16– 28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. In response to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the presence of American missiles in Italy and Turkey against the USSR, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba's request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. Result…

History 500 Cuban Missile Crisis Result • Withdrawal of Soviet Union's nuclear missiles from Cuba • Withdrawal of American nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy • Agreement with the Soviet Union that the United States would never invade Cuba without direct provocation • Creation of a nuclear hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union

History 600 Mariel Boatlift • Mass emigration of 125, 000 Cubans by boat to the US with Fidel Castro’s approval between April 15 and October 31, 1980 • It was discovered that a number of the refugees had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities

History 700 Operation Peter Pan • Mass exodus of 14, 000 unaccompanied Cuban children ages 12 -18 to the US between 1960 and 1962 • This operation was the result of wary parents under the Castro Regime which was on a mission to transmit revolutionary thinking to students

Pasatiempos 100 Baseball Cuban National Team Olympics Gold: 1992, 1996, 2004 Silver: 2000, 2008

Pasatiempos 200 Dancing • danzón, mambo, chacha-cha, bolero, salsa, rumba, reggaeton • make sure to watch the virtual reality

Pasatiempos 300 Family Life “My cousin and I hunt snakefish, go to my grandpa’s farm, and raise chicken babies. ”

Pasatiempos 400 Music So many kinds and in the streets! Buena Vista Social Club and Afro-Cuban All Stars

Cuba Idiosyncrasies 100 Jineteros specialize in swindling tourists: buy cigars, offer homestays

Cuba Idiosyncrasies 200 Our US government license to travel • “private foundations doing research” • Remember to contribute to the blog!

Cuba Idiosyncrasies 300 How to act at the airport in Havana • You are travelling only with your family • Not part of a group

Cuba Idiosyncrasies 400 Tipping & Gifts • • • Carry 1. 00 CUC coins 10 -15% taxis Restaurants already include it, but leave a little extra if service was good Laptops needed by MBA students!! Look at gift list in Cuba Manual

Cuba Idiosyncrasies 500 Homestays • • • Pay them directly Can’t cancel Have at least 1 dinner with them (outside Havana) Don’t ask them to book a restaurant for you Call to confirm the day before arrival

Cuba Idiosyncrasies 600 Lilliana She is your host, go-to person in Havana

Cuba Idiosyncrasies 700 Vouchers • • • This is their system You will receive at briefing first day You need to keep track!

Bonus Question Priceless! What is the most important ingredient? • • Attitude! Expect hiccups Be polite Keep your sense of humor!

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