CUBA: ROUGH GUIDE. 3rd ed.

Isolated from the Western world for over thirty years, Cuba burst back onto the international tourist scene a decade ago and hasn't looked back since. Shaped by one of the twentieth century's longest-surviving revolutions, until recently Cuba's image had been inextricably bound up with its politics, rather than its long satiny beaches, offshore cays and jungle-covered peaks. Now, the country is changing and Cuba today is characterized as much as anything by a frenetic sense of transition as it shifts from socialist stronghold to one of the Caribbean's major tourist destinations, running on capitalist dollars.