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...Harvard. The exhibition itself is informal and informative. Upstairs in the Center for Latin American studies, the black and white, photojournalistic pictures of Ernesto Fernandez tell a chronological history of the Cuban Revolution. In the downstairs resource room, his son’s colorful scenes of present-day Havana show the remnants of Cuba’s tumultuous past...
...government could import them more cheaply from the nearby U.S. - which has kept an economic embargo against the communist island for four decades. So it was little wonder that Cuban President Fidel Castro made a point of dropping by the American Egg Board's stand at the Havana food exposition that started yesterday. "How fast can you make them?" he asked New Yorker Howard Kelmer, 64, who is the Board's senior representative - and who holds the Guinness Book of World Records distinction as history's fastest omelet-maker (427 in 30 minutes...
...Havana exhibition, which concludes on Monday, has drawn almost 300 U.S. firms, the most Yanqui companies ever to visit Cuba since Castro took power in 1959. But it's as much photo op as food fair for Castro - a chance to fuel the growing anti-embargo movement in the U.S., where this fall Congress is expected to pass legislation allowing Americans to travel to Cuba for the first time since the embargo began in 1962. Castro knows that if Cuba's 11 million people want more eggs (and meat, chicken and rice), gringo businessmen like Kelmer want a new market...
...Still, James Cason, the U.S. Interests Section chief in Havana, said this week that Cuba's is a threadbare, "Jurassic" economy that could never meet U.S. business's enthusiastic expectations. Cuba, he noted, has had trouble in the past repaying credit on all but the most favorable terms. The Bush Administration also insists that most of the U.S. food ends up on the tables of communist officials and bureaucrats, not average Cubans, a charge that Castro angrily denies. "Millions of tons of food have been distributed free to six million people" since a hurricane ravaged the island last November, insisted...
...island. Some reasoned that engaging Cuba economically will, in the long run, help transform the country democratically. Michael Walter, 33, president of Splash Tropical Drinks in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., was poised to sign a marketing partnership in Cuba and the Caribbean with Cuba's state-owned rum company, Havana Club. "If a country is a threat to us, that's one thing, but I don't think Cuba is," said Walter. "This is a new era and we need to work together and let the past...