Oli, Castro shut the casinos and brothels right away. But, within a month, the casino and restaurant workers' unions demanded that he reopen them (not the brothels). He did, for a while. Even hired Joe Louis as "official greeter." Newspaper ads at the time emphasized that the "Cuban Revolutionary Government" had "differences with the US Government, not its people." Sure. The people stayed away in droves."


Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.