You sound like you love Cuba and you get it but I just think there needs to be the Yuma (similar to Farang, gringo) perspective who has many different challenges than a Cuban American will face.
The Cuban American faces many of their own challenges. One is the inflador. Cuban Americans in large part (not all) are expected to go back to Cuba and show off their wealth. Family members expect you to help them out beyond what is reasonable in many cases. The biggest one is though that you can't go back to Cuba and say its tough in the US and you work your balls off to make it by. You've gotta make it look like you made it big. Thats why you have 1000's of Cuban Americans paying $100-$250 a day in rental cars (Audi is the one of choice), drinking the most expensive bottle in the local night club (Usually Chivas Regal unless Havana), taking the entire family to paladars or to hotel pools etc. All of a sudden a lot of these guys can only make one trip every year or two because their one week trip turns into a $4,000 trip + the monthly remesas add another $2,400 to his tab and the help with the odd big purchase can add another $1,000 to his tab. Those are things us Yumas don't have to go through.
The Cuban American faces many of their own challenges. One is the inflador. Cuban Americans in large part (not all) are expected to go back to Cuba and show off their wealth. Family members expect you to help them out beyond what is reasonable in many cases. The biggest one is though that you can't go back to Cuba and say its tough in the US and you work your balls off to make it by. You've gotta make it look like you made it big. Thats why you have 1000's of Cuban Americans paying $100-$250 a day in rental cars (Audi is the one of choice), drinking the most expensive bottle in the local night club (Usually Chivas Regal unless Havana), taking the entire family to paladars or to hotel pools etc. All of a sudden a lot of these guys can only make one trip every year or two because their one week trip turns into a $4,000 trip + the monthly remesas add another $2,400 to his tab and the help with the odd big purchase can add another $1,000 to his tab. Those are things us Yumas don't have to go through.