Her mission must wait until nightfall. The conditions are perfect its quiet and pitch black. But she has chosen this beach for another reason. Its the very beach where she was born. In one of natures great feats of navigation, she has traveled hundreds of miles to cuba for a single hour of work. She creates a cavity deep enough to protect her fragile cargo from the elements. Finally, she is ready. For about 20 minutes she is in a nearecstatic state. Releasing up to 200 eggs into the sand. When shes finished, she buries her precious payload. And drags herself back out to sea. She leaves her hatchlings with a oneinathousand chance of survival. And she has no idea what her beach has become. Cuba may be offlimits for americans, but for the rest of the world, the secret is out. In 1991, when the collapse of the soviet union nearly bankrupted the country, the regime opened its pristine beaches to europeans, canadians, south americans. For decades, a financial embargo by the United States has