Reaching Moa, Cuba: the beautiful and the ugly

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June 16th 2015
This is what I would have posted December 27-28, 2014, had we had Internet access in Cuba... I gaze through the open window, my hair blowing like a child’s in the back seat of the small, boxy Lada. We pass through pasture land where the largest herds of cattle I’ve seen in Cuba graze. In Cienfuegos we’ve been unable to buy beef and I wonder if the people here can buy it or if it is all s ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Cuba » Este

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The native Amerindian population of Cuba began to decline after the European discovery of the island by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1492 and following its development as a Spanish colony during the next several centuries. Large numbers of African slaves ... ... read more