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Make the Hotel Parque Central your home base. It's the newest, best-located hotel in Old Havana. Rather than get rooked by street vendors of cigars, you can shop at the hotel's trustworthy walk-in humidor. There is also a rooftop pool and restaurant with spectacular views of the city. Service is languid, but the hotel employees--a collection of former engineers and accountants who can make more money tending bar or toting luggage--speak English, and most are probably better educated than you. Slip the concierge $20, and you can have all the advice, reservations and drivers...
...marriage to Martinez was simply a page from his espionage manual. On Feb. 23, 1996, Roque left Martinez, and three days later he surfaced in Cuba. That was right after Castro's air force, using intelligence gathered in part by Roque, shot down two small unarmed planes off Havana, killing four anti-Castro Cuban-exile activists (from the group Brothers to the Rescue) who were piloting them. Watching TV, Martinez was stunned to see Roque tell a reporter that what he missed most back in the U.S. was "my Jeep Cherokee...
...front, sought a spouse. He chose Martinez, whom he met in a Bible-study group at his aunt's Baptist church. Says Martinez: "I was perfect for him because I was politically naive." Roque started an ardent courtship and, say court documents, in his secret communiques to Havana referred to Martinez as "the Merry Widow...
...events jibed with the Cuban leader's memories of the real McCoy. "I shouldn't be speaking for [Castro], but he responded to the film very favorably, and we had a very interesting discussion afterward," said a spokesman for Costner, who was swarmed by enthusiastic fans in Havana. What's next? An invitation for the actor to visit with imprisoned ex-President Slobodan Milosevic for repeated screenings of 3,000 Miles to Graceland...
...SISTER HAVANA...