When you are flying high and all is going well, there will be friends a plenty. People will always want to be associated with a winner because she or he will be in the spotlight.However, it is when one is faced with adversity, trials, doubt, and without prestige, then one discovers the people who are truly friends and those who were simply hangers-on.We in the Caribbean are not rich nations. Except for our reasonable rankings on the Human Development Index of the United Nations, our natural beauty, hardworking and friendly people, Caribbean countries face enormous challenges.The nation of Cuba is the largest of the islands. It has the notoriety of being a thorn in the side of our mighty neighbour, the United States of America.We regard the United States’ obsession with the island nation as neurotic, for there is simply no rational reason why it continues to treat Cuba like a pariah, when the rest of the world has moved on.