It\'s an old reference. Back to when people just hijacked planes to go places, the number one destination to hijack a plane to was to Cuba. There was a point where this became so commonplace that pilots used to have maps of Havana in their planes just to be on the safe side.
This eventually lead to the development of metal detectors, and moronic announcements at airports.
But as long as the thread is hijacked to Cuba, why not take a stop and see the location where Earnest Hemmingway lived? (There and Key West) I believe there is a meuseum there with a lot of his documents, although I\'m not sure if it is open to the public.
Cuban Spanish is probably one of the fastest Spanish dialects in the New World, opposed by Mexican Spanish which some say is the slowest. I\'m sure it\'s a result of the Cuban expresso which they drink by the pitcher. (At least that is what Hemmingway implied in his novel \"The Old Man and the Sea\" where the old man asks the boy to go and get him a pitcher of coffee. That was a whole lot of cuban expresso!)