This is an extract from Mad About Cuba: A Malayali Revisits the Revolution. The book is published by Penguin Random House India and is available now.
Cuba is unique in more ways than one. The country has been under the longest trade embargo in modern history — since 1960. Since the Revolution, the US has seen 13 presidents remit office. All these American presidents have remitted office after failing to achieve regime change in the Caribbean country through what the Cubans consider…
