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...subdivisions, all catering to seniors. Some 24,000 Mexicans and 9,000 nortenos coexist here, more apart than together. There are separate services in English and Spanish at the Baptist church; Alcoholics Anonymous offers meetings for Anglos at 6, for Mexicans at 8. But everyone strolls along the seaside malecon to hear the mariachis and goes to the same black-market dealers for illegal hookups to U.S. DirecTV satellites. "It's great," says Lou Wells, 67, a former railroad clerk. "We get hbo, Showtime, and we can watch $150 pay-per-view fights for free...
...Force, violated our air space, dropped leaflets on our capital and engaged in other constant acts of provocation. On July 13 they dropped leaflets on Havana. It was a real provocation. On Jan. 9 and 13, they came back and dropped thousands of leaflets. In fact, people watched from Malecon [Havana's oceanfront promenade] as MiGs made warning passes against their planes. People were criticizing the Cuban air force. We reported each and every violation to the United States in a diplomatic protest. We warned U.S. officials time and again. We had been patient, but there are limits...
...writes. "Sometimes the place was so beautiful it made you want to cry almost. It was like seeing some young, lovely woman on the arm of a short, sleazy general. The soft breeze off the sea; the intermittent light of cars, winking along the Malecon; the Nacional above us, like a giant beached galleon: it was like a romantic's Eden. And here I was with the brightest Eve in Havana, and she was asking me to rescue her from Paradise...
...unprecedented riots along the Malecon this August (according to The New Republic, over 500 remain in jail on charges of "rebellion") and the mass exodus that followed it are incredible signs that Castro's power is threatened for the first time in 35 years...
Details of this one reached Havana just as a swirling rainstorm sent pedestrians scurrying for shelter in doorways along the seaside Malecon. They thought the 20,000 figure was far too low. "One million, maybe 5 million people want to go to the U.S.," said a young woman, "but they keep changing the rules...