I'm seriously thinking about flying over there with a bag full of stuff to sell over there. Fly back, fill the bag and in again hahaha rinse and repeat. Jokes aside, I'm really curious, and would visit Cuba if I had the money. Brazil also had a period where imported goods were basically not allowed (between the 70's and early 90's) -- you'd need to pay a lot more for someone to bring stuff into the country, more or less like in Cuba. Government excuse: incentivize national production. You can imagine it incentivized nothing but years of blocking innovation to Brazilian consumers, like computers and so on. We kinda fall back in terms of technology.
RE: Do I deserve it?