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CUBA CARIBBEAN SEA Santiago de Cuba Las Guásimas El Caney El Pozo Siboney Daiquirí Guantánamo Bay Caimanera Fort Toro Fisherman's Point CUBA Havana Map area...
...Trail Sharpshooter skirmish lines El Pozo Hill Aguadores River San Juan River To El Caney Gatling guns Trail Road Observation balloon Factory Blockhouse Barbed wire U.S. artillery Cavalry units Spanish retreat...
DIED. RAY BARRETTO, 76, Grammy-winning "godfather" of Latin jazz; in Hackensack, N.J. Renowned for integrating the conga into jazz, he decided to become a musician after hearing a Dizzy Gillespie recording featuring Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. In 1961 Barretto recorded the boogaloo tune El Watusi, among the few Latin jazz songs to hit the Billboard charts. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, he formed a decades-long partnership with the Latin pop label Fania, where he popularized salsa music...
...hundreds of rescue workers who combed through the wreckage last week looking for survivors in the scorched and twisted compartments of a commuter train at Madrid's El Pozo del Tio Raimundo station. When he came across an unremarkable sports bag, he assumed it belonged to one of the victims and put it aside; at some point amid the grim triage, the bag was taken to a local police station, where it was added to a mountain of unclaimed personal possessions--purses, briefcases, shoes, coats, laptop computers. In the chaotic aftermath of the Madrid bomb attacks, no one thought...
...language schools, Ecuador rivals Costa Rica, Mexico and Guatemala as a Spanish-learning mecca, and government officials are hoping to turn language tourism into a significant generator of income. "It is exactly the kind of quality industry that our country so badly needs," explains Concepcion Barahona de Pozo, Ecuador's tourism undersecretary...