Issue 1

Cuba and the United States have experienced a changing relationship from the 1950s until now.  Cuba is a mecca for cigars, and the Cigar Aficionado edition for June 2007 described the relationship between Cuba and the United States from several viewpoints.

Happy New Year

We hope that you had a wonderful time celebrating with family and friends while closing out the prior year. Now it is the time for you to usher in yet another year of hopes and dreams as you look for another chance to do something special in your life.

Introduction

Now that you have made it successfully through another year we are sure that you have defined the same resolutions to be accomplished in 2009 as you did last year. According to many popular web sites weight reduction, spending more time with family, and reducing debt are among the top New Year’s resolutions of many Americans.

One day I went into the office of one of my mentors and asked for some advice. I ranted on for about twenty minutes about life and its unfairness and how dissatisfied I was with certain aspects of my life. I kept continuing on as my mentor patiently waited for me to finish expressing my thoughts.