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Their first date came just a few days after Chicuén arrived. The pair strolled down el Malec??n, a historic and picturesque esplanade along the Havana coast. Next came dinner at a restaurant with an ocean view. And then they danced the night away. “That first date confirmed that we were meant to be together. We just enjoyed each other so much, and the mere presence of the other was enough to feel happy,” Antonio wrote...
...from that house in the Santo Surez neighborhood, downhill past the official state recording studio, past the House of Music on Neptune Street, catching everyone's hips as it goes, until the whole crumbling metropolis is swaying to this montuno, all the way down to the Malec??n on the sea, where the world's most humid block party unfolds on the esplanade, the way it does every evening of the summer, just across the Florida Straits from the big enemigo...
What I remember from 1999 was the ubiquity of music: everywhere, every day, in clubs at night and on the Malec??n in the mornings--music. At Gonzlez Coro hospital in Vedado, where my wife was working for the summer, surgeons broke out a boom box in between patients and invited nurses and med students alike for an impromptu salsa session. Dance, sing, smile, repeat: the cultural cure for whatever ailed the revolution...
...kind that spun off from the Buena Vista Social Club album. That seems a dire prediction, but a Thursday night in Havana makes you wonder how Cuban music will survive. On Avenue G, the roqueros gather to get high and watch rock videos on makeshift outdoor screens. On the Malec??n in front of a gas station, a band called Aria thrashes out garage rock for a small crowd outside while upstairs at the Jazz Caf a saxophone player named Csar Lpez heats up the stage with squealing Ornette Coleman riffs. More ominous to the salseros...
...knife's edge. Should Ral Castro weaken, there are still a dozen aging Ahmed Chalabis waiting in Miami to return from exile and divide the spoils among themselves. Should there be rebellion in the streets in Havana, there's still a state militancy that could bring blood to the Malec??n. But the new generation of Cubans both here and abroad are of a milder bent, with gentler aspirations. A cabdriver I met launched into a familiar refrain: most of his family fled to Tampa when Fidel Castro stole their lands. So was he--or his family in Florida--waiting...
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