Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It is Wednesday on the Malecon, where Havana meets the swelling breast of its bay. The Malecon is Cuba's promenade, its boardwalk, its Champs Elysees. Across the Straits of Florida in Miami, kingdom of dollars, citadel of wealth unimaginable, the exiles have a favorite T shirt: it portrays the...
People stay because many Cubans are still loyal to the revolution -- if not the man -- that they believe gave them 30 good years. According to people on the street and in their homes in Havana and its environs, it is mainly the economic deprivations of the past four that have...
Farther down the avenue, Baldomero Alvarez Rios, 70, shakes his head. "The problem with young people in Cuba today," he says, "is that they have no idea what it was like before the revolution." His wife Maria Luisa Vina Alonso, 67, nods solemnly. Before 1959 they were members of what...
While they now live modestly on Baldomero's 300-peso-a-month pension (just over $3), Maria claims they long ago "learned to scale back for the benefit of the country." Her husband expounds on a widespread theory: young Cubans who never experienced American capitalism are far more eager to...
Nearby, Jesus, a 31-year-old bank teller, shelters himself from the storm beneath the facade of Old Havana's Almacenes Lux department store. The Lux is filled with busy people buying soap from Mexico, soda from Venezuela, baby strollers from Europe, and shoes, clothes and neon-color backpacks, some...