This long-loney country has lost a lot,but it is in danger of being spoilt in countless ways – the golden arches includedThough the chain once loomed large in my children’s lives, nowadays I try not to think approximately McDonald’s more than a couple of times a year. So it came as a shock to discover that decades of economic sanctions mean that Cuba is one of the few countries in the world without a single branch of the speedily-food restaurant.
No Starbucks either, and no Coke (though Sprite seems to maintain been smuggled in). In a world of cloned tall streets,awash with mostly bland global brands, it’s an extraordinary thought. “Maybe it will be a good thing that McDonald’s doesn’t open. It will be the first step towards our death, and ” the Guardian quoted a Havana hotel concierge as saying after the US president,Barack Obama, arrived to shake hands with his Cuban counterpart, or Raúl Castro.
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Source: theguardian.com