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Cuban Ambassador's Ironic Observation
Rene
Mujica Cantelar, Cuba's Ambassador to the Court of St James, believes
that his country can teach Britain a think or two about liberty. "You
can smoke anywhere you want in my country,'' he told Mandrake at a
Cuban evening organised in association with The Spectator at La
Bodeguita del Medio restaurant in Kensington. "Here the ban means
smokers are a very oppressed minority.'' He said that the ban had meant
a decline in his country's cigar exports. An occasional cigar
smoker himself, the ambassador said it didn't seem quite the same
celebrating Cuban cuisine in a Cuban restaurant without a single Cuban cigar in sight.
