Poor Ignacio, nothing belongs to you with communism.

The American Phone Company was the focus of 99 percent of the anti-Americanism in Cuba prior to 1959. Now it appears that by hook or crook--that is, through some formal "understanding" with Fidel Castro-- it was permitted to retain for more than 40 years a valuable piece of real estate in Havana, intended no doubt for the construction of a hotel in joint partnership with Castro. Apparently the deal fell through and Castro took back "his" land. Well, you lie with dogs and you get up with flees. Serves them right.

So did they seize the solid gold telephone from Godfather II?

You know, of course, Julio, that everything in the "Godfather II" movie is fiction. There never was a solid gold phone; the Mafia didn't run Cuba or own Batista; Cuba was not a cesspool of gambling or prostitution; the Cuban revolution was not predicated on the redress of social inequities: lies, lies and more lies. Yet everything that the average American "knows" about Cuba--including politicians and reporters--was learned from that movie. The greatest defamer of the Cuban people after Fidel Castro is Francis Coppola.