Dunno about the connection conveyed on this wrapper (click image on the right to enlarge): a raj paraded around by coolies in front of what appears the Taj Mahal. What does it have to with a humble bar of chocolate from Cuba?

Ever the ethno-botanists, the French represented here by Chapon could be implying that maybe both cacáo & Cuba are ready for a royal breakout once the island survives the Castro regime. The way India did the Mughal Dynasty for instance... only to precipitate the arrival & spread of the British Empire.

Conventional wisdom holds that once Fidel & Raoul go, Washington -- at the behest of Cuban exiles in South Florida -- will re-appropriate Cuba, turning into another Puerto RIco.

But similar to de Gaulle's independent French foreign policy, this bar might augur for non-alignment & realpolitik.

Now that the axis of the global economy is shifting east toward India & China, such a development presents its own kind of hackneyed thinking. The future no doubt will one day subject it to its own particular verdict, for nothing is inevitable until it happens.