I stayed at Jibicoa. As Evilcougar mentioned, the beach isn't great (although there is lots of great snorkeling), but the resort is really nice.
I had a nice long chat with an old guy who sells paintings at the resort. He was telling me about how it was before Castro, and as a kid remembered seeing Hemmingway. Apparently all the kids were afraid of him.
This was in '02 and I asked him about the US. He said he knew it would eventually happen, but he was fearful about being inundated with American culture. He would hate losing all their small Cuban restaurants and having McDonalds popping up on the street corners.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
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"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
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