As to the Coppelia Ice Cream Parlor, which Mr. Kaplan is entirely correct in stating.... left wing apologists of Castro wax eloquent about....my understanding is that there are two lineups...the lineup at foreign tourist prices where the wait is not too long..and the Cuban price line...where you can wait for hours. Paying on the tourist price line...a cone will set you back 2 or 3 dollars, which is about the equivalent of 10 to 20 percent of your monthly income...translate that into Canadian dollar amounts to find out what socialist paradise is truly like.

As well, in tourist cities like that of Trinidad on the south coast, local Cubans are prohibited from renting or staying in a hotel or bed and breakfast...only for tourists. Im sure UNESCO, which pays for most of the restoration, is not aware that here, in socialist heavan, the workers cant stay in a hotel or pensione in their own country. 

As many Cubans I met on trips to Cuba said....this place is a prison...an island prison.