OK, here it goes: In Cold War-times, Cuba racked up a debt with what was then called Czecholslavakia. Since then, the Soviet Union collapsed, Czechoslovakia became the Czech Republic, and Cuba stood frozen in time. That Soviet-era debt survives though, and negotiations have recently surfaced for Cuba to repay that debt in rum. According to The Guardian, 130 years worth. Of rum. That's a fun story, right? We thought so too. So we went to Cuba to tell it, and learned that you can't just make a puff piece in an active military dictatorship.
—Emmy Gyori