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...faceless groups of people filing silently from Kim Il Sung Stadium to Kim Il Sung University to Kim Il Sung Higher Party School (all with badges of Kim Il Sung on their hearts); it was, even more, the spooky unreality of a country that was building a 105-story tourist hotel while allowing almost no tourists, and showing off an Olympic stadium for the Games that were never held there. A typical book on sale was a biography of the new President, Kim's son, Kim Jong Il. Titled The Great Man KIM JONG IL (and boasting a picture...
...late in Old Havana, and Calle Obispo is shrouded in darkness as Jorge, who fears giving his real name, walks down the narrow street. Once a fashionable shopping avenue, Obispo is now lined with decayed buildings. Jorge passes a tourist store, where three young Cubans are staring at a window display of souvenirs that would cost them the equivalent of several months' salary. At the corner, a young man whispers, "Pizza, pizza," hoping to attract customers to an illegal private restaurant. At 20 pesos, the price of a pie equals what Jorge earns in two days. Light spills...
...aged rum -- a rare treat -- he pours out the familiar Cuban litany of despair. He eats no breakfast or lunch and cannot find milk for his 10-year-old daughter. His car has no gas, his home no electricity. When he walks down Obispo at night, even the cheap tourist souvenirs tantalize him. He sips more rum. "People drink here to an extent you can't imagine," he says. "They don't go to work anymore. There is no hope. We talk about food shortages, clothes shortages, but it's our spirit that is broken...
...long been one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, as much for its open spaces as for its cut-rate prices on such goods as consumer electronics and sneakers. But this year foreign visitors are being lured in near record numbers by the very weak dollar, which has made good deals even better, and by the new efficiency with which American packaged-tour companies move tourists in and out of stores. Rock-bottom retail prices -- anywhere from 30% to 70% less than those in Europe and Asia -- are expected to bring some 47 million visitors...
...colds," Ana explains. Flushed with anger, she beckons a visitor to accompany her to the nearest pharmacy. "Is there aspirin?" she demands of the clerk. "Is there flu medicine for my baby?" The answer, as always, is no. "You see!" she says. "They take all the medicine to the tourist stores, where you must have dollars...