![A view of the town of Puerto Rico Libre just...]()
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A view of the town of Puerto Rico Libre just outside Havana, Cuba.
![Residents of a Plaza Vieja building in Old Havana walk...]()
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Residents of a Plaza Vieja building in Old Havana walk to the third floor of the decaying building, slated for restoration.
![Cigar workers put rings and box finished cigars in Havana's...]()
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Cigar workers put rings and box finished cigars in Havana's H. Upmann cigar factory.
![A classic car drives along El Padro Avenue in Havana.]()
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A classic car drives along El Padro Avenue in Havana.
![A view of a road going into Florencia, in northern...]()
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A view of a road going into Florencia, in northern Cuba.
!["Guerrilla de Teatreros" actress Ana Carenia Botello Nunez applies make-up...]()
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"Guerrilla de Teatreros" actress Ana Carenia Botello Nunez applies make-up before a performance for children in a community center in the Sierra Maestra town of Los Horneros.
![A boy looks at a dance group performing for tourists...]()
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A boy looks at a dance group performing for tourists in Old Havana.
![Debris from a decaying building sits in the inside patio...]()
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Debris from a decaying building sits in the inside patio area of an Old Havana building slated for renovation.
![School children make their way to school on a weekday...]()
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School children make their way to school on a weekday in Old Havana.
![Dry tobacco leaves in a farm in Cuba's Pinar del...]()
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Dry tobacco leaves in a farm in Cuba's Pinar del Rio, known for its cigar plantations.
![Trombone player Felix Martinez, a member of a Havana salsa...]()
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Trombone player Felix Martinez, a member of a Havana salsa band, practices his music on Havana's Malecon.
![An image of Cuba's President Raul Castro hangs during the...]()
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An image of Cuba's President Raul Castro hangs during the 7th Committee for the Defense of the Revolution Congress in Havana.
![A man walks past the ruins of a home in...]()
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A man walks past the ruins of a home in Havana.
![A red car crosses Havana's Malecon as waves crash and...]()
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A red car crosses Havana's Malecon as waves crash and flood the street.
![Children frolic on a rocky beach in the town of...]()
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Children frolic on a rocky beach in the town of Cojimar, a small fishing village, five miles east of Havana. Cojimar was the launching point for thousands of rafters trying to flee Cuba in the summer of 1994 after President Fidel Castro announced his government would no longer stop boats or rafts leaving Cuba.
![A man pushes his motorbike past the grand gate to...]()
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A man pushes his motorbike past the grand gate to a Plaza Vieja building slated for renovation.
![The old decaying manor house in the town of Puerto...]()
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The old decaying manor house in the town of Puerto Rico Libre just outside Havana, Cuba. A sugar mill in the once thriving town was shut down and the town lost its main source of employment.
![Manuel Suarez, 57, and his daughter Ismary Portillo, 22, in...]()
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Manuel Suarez, 57, and his daughter Ismary Portillo, 22, in the town of Puerto Rico Libre just outside Havana, Cuba. A sugar mill in the once thriving town was shut down and the town lost its main source of employment.
![Outside shot of the multistory Carlos Tercero Shopping Plaza in...]()
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Outside shot of the multistory Carlos Tercero Shopping Plaza in Havana.
![People holding Cuban flags march at the Revolution Square in...]()
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People holding Cuban flags march at the Revolution Square in Havana during the May Day parade.
![Revellers carry a photo of Cuban leader Fidel Castro during...]()
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Revellers carry a photo of Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a May Day parade at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Castro did not attend the annual celebration. May Day was inspired by a wave of strikes and demonstrations for a shorter work day, followed by the Haymarket Square killings during a labor dispute in Chicago in 1886. The Marxist International Socialist Congress adopted May Day as International Workers' Day at a meeting held in Paris in July 1889.
![A woman smokes in front of a painting depicting Cuban...]()
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A woman smokes in front of a painting depicting Cuban leader Fidel Castro prior to the closing ceremony of the 7th Committees for the Defense of the Revolution Congress in Havana. The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution were created by Fidel Castro in September 1960 to put medical, educational or other campaigns into national effect and to report counter-revolutionary activity.
!["Guerrilla de Teatreros" director Rene Reyes Blazquez lights a cigar...]()
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"Guerrilla de Teatreros" director Rene Reyes Blazquez lights a cigar using a buring piece of wood used to cook the group's meal in the town of La Aplasta in the Sierra Maestra.
![Two Cuban men fish near the lighthouse of the Spanish...]()
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Two Cuban men fish near the lighthouse of the Spanish built Morro Castle at the entrance of Havana's bay.
![Gretel Arnet, 24, takes a break as she does laundry...]()
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Gretel Arnet, 24, takes a break as she does laundry in the inside patio of the delapidated home in the town of Guines in Cuba that used to belong to the family of a Royal Palm Beach woman. The once stately home has now been turned into three different houses, pigs and dogs live near the residents in the inside patio.
![A frame in the birthplace of Cuban leader Fidel Castro...]()
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A frame in the birthplace of Cuban leader Fidel Castro Ruz's farm in Biran. The pictures are, from left; Raul Castro, Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto Che Guevara.
![Alejandrina Reyes, 60, looks out from a school bus as...]()
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Alejandrina Reyes, 60, looks out from a school bus as she and thousands of residents of La Coloma coastal neighborhood in Pinar del Rio, are forced to evacuate the low lying area before Hurricane Ivan hit the western part of Cuba.
![Thousands of Cubans dressed in red T-shirts, to show their...]()
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Thousands of Cubans dressed in red T-shirts, to show their loyalty to communism, march at the end of a military parade in honor of the 50th anniversary of a guerrilla war that brought Cuban president Fidel Castro to power at Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana, Cuba. The military parade is the first in Havana in a decade and marks the anniversary of the 1956 landing of a yacht that carried ailing Cuban leader and his armed band to Cuba to launch their guerrilla war.
![Luis Enrique Carrazana Reyes watches an older boy wrap a...]()
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Luis Enrique Carrazana Reyes watches an older boy wrap a line around a wooden toy known as a "trompo" or tumbler in the Sierra Maestra town of Los Horneros. A member of the Bayamo based "Guerrilla de Teatreros" theater troup was teaching the boys how to play with the toy.
![Young Cuban children salute during the singing of the Cuban...]()
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Young Cuban children salute during the singing of the Cuban National anthem in Havana's Karl Marx theater in the beginning of a memorial service for the victims of the Cubana flight blown up in mid flight in 1978.
![A group of young Cuban kids play an improvised game...]()
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A group of young Cuban kids play an improvised game of long jump. They were using the bed of a parked truck to run and jump to a raised grassy curb in a plaza in Central Havana.
![Sugar cane workers fumigate a field in central Cienfuegos province.]()
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Sugar cane workers fumigate a field in central Cienfuegos province.
![Alexander Fonseca Suarez, 29, resident of the Sierra Maestra town...]()
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Alexander Fonseca Suarez, 29, resident of the Sierra Maestra town "La Aplasta".
![Main street Cardenas where a mural of Che Guevara reads...]()
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Main street Cardenas where a mural of Che Guevara reads ; Hasta la Victoria Siempre (Until Victory Always), cyclists pedal by.
![Children attend a karate class in Havana.]()
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Children attend a karate class in Havana.
![Members of a Cuban family lay flower arrangements on a...]()
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Members of a Cuban family lay flower arrangements on a grave of a relative in Havana's Colon, Cemetery.
![A dancer dressed as a sunflower entertains the judges and...]()
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A dancer dressed as a sunflower entertains the judges and crowd during the Santiago Carnival.
![People make their way along a street in Havana.]()
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People make their way along a street in Havana.
![Pedestrians circulate in the town of Santa Clara in the...]()
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Pedestrians circulate in the town of Santa Clara in the province of Villa Clara as the sun rapidly sets casting an orange glow on buildings.
![A schoolgirl looks out the window from inside a crowded...]()
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A schoolgirl looks out the window from inside a crowded "camello" (camel) public transport in Havana.
![Jhon Maikol Blanco, 3, holds his rooster outside the wooden...]()
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Jhon Maikol Blanco, 3, holds his rooster outside the wooden home he lives in with his parents in the town of San Francisco de Paula in Matanzas.
![Pictures of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are hung up...]()
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Pictures of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are hung up as members of a CDR, Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (Comite para la Defensa de la Revolution), paint political slogans and propaganda on signs for the May Day march.
![Young and older boxers go about their training in Old...]()
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Young and older boxers go about their training in Old Havana's Rafael Trejo Boxing Gym, nestled between old apartment tenements.
![A ramshackle American car, parked on a Cuban street, both...]()
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A ramshackle American car, parked on a Cuban street, both of which have seen better days.
![A woman drinks coffee in her window as clothes hang...]()
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A woman drinks coffee in her window as clothes hang to dry in Havana.
![A Cuban fixes his old 1954 Chevrolet in Havana.]()
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A Cuban fixes his old 1954 Chevrolet in Havana.
![Elementary school children do stretching exercises in the Old Havana...]()
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Elementary school children do stretching exercises in the Old Havana square known as Plaza Vieja.
![A Cuban family window shops in a store on Obispo...]()
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A Cuban family window shops in a store on Obispo Street in Havana's historic Old Havana area.
