Translation of tallo

The machine arrived in Cuba at nine and it was already dark. The border control was nothing like the one in Mexico. They were communist and one could see the strictness and uneasiness of them.
On Friday, I can send it from the US. But I would send it from here with EMS or even better with UPS, including delivery confirmation and tracking. From the US there will be no return address or tracking.
We again connected to the same people and we were wining a little about the fact that we had to share the boat with around seventy other passengers instead of getting a little romantic private tour.