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Growing Up in Miami was a very interesting experience because for the most part you were surrounded by Cubans who exiled from Cuba. So you would eat Cuban food, dance to Cuban music, hear stories of how beautiful it was and how one day we would return to see for ourselves.

Living near Miami, it was bound to happen that one of my end-of-year parties implied the presence of a large number of Cuban-Americans. I shall not mention the exquisite food, the incessant laughter and the suggestive dancing, but only the clues that took me to solve the mystery of Atlantis...

The second one also has the no bebe, ni fuma lines, but includes ni goza which means that he doesn't have fun and ni come which means that he doesn't eat. I don't know about fun, but you can ignore the part about eating. I confirmed with Huckabee that Mormons do, in fact, consume food. Don't mind the part about the rabo ("tail") too.

Cubans brave enough to wear a bracelet with that word. The campaign focuses a little more light on the apartheid-like situation in Cuba wherein the best food and hotels are only made available to tourists. bucl

Cubans have a ration card for food but can buy jets ;-)