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We are a stock picture library featuring images by Rubens Abboud, and offering high-quality rights-managed travel stock photography for editorial and commercial use.
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2005-04-02 New images in Montreal, Old Montreal and Quebec City. New galleries: Mont Tremblant, Fete des Neiges (Montreal) and Quebec City Winter Carnival.
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Woman smoking cigar in Old Havana (Habana Vieja).
HAVANA LA HABANA CUBA
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Capitolio dome with colourful CAPITOLIO DE LA HABANA sign. The Capitolio is an imitation of the American Capitol building Washington, DC. It currently houses the Ministry of Science, Technology, and the Environment.
HAVANA LA HABANA CUBA
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Green and red kayaks lie on a beach in Varadero while a motorized hang glider takes off.
VARADERO MATANZAS CUBA
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Ministry of the Interior (Ministerio del Interior) building with Che Guevara bronze wire sculpture. The words under the sculpture say: Hasta la victoria siempre.
HAVANA LA HABANA CUBA
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Cannons and cannonballs at Fortaleza San Carlos de la Cabana fortress in the Parque Historico Militar Morro Cabana.
HAVANA LA HABANA CUBA
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A classic American car from the 1950s passes in front of a VIVA CUBA LIBRE sign.
HAVANA LA HABANA CUBA
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A classic Chevrolet from the 1950s.
HAVANA LA HABANA CUBA
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Sign: PLAYA PUBLICA, PUBLIC BEACH, PLAGE PUBLIQUE, OFFENTLICHE STRAND
VARADERO MATANZAS CUBA
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Cuba gallery
I spent Christmas and New Year's in Varadero, Cuba with my wife and son in 2003/2004. I became so fascinated with Cuba and Cubans that I returned alone three months later, staying in Havana.
Ours was not the only aircraft that had arrived in Varadero, so getting off the plane with our toddler we were immediately confronted with very long lines to go through Cuban customs. We waited for barely 5 minutes, when we were approached by a customs agent who looked at our son and waved us to the front of the line. Although we had travelled with our son before, this was the first time an official -- in customs, no less -- had bothered to offer us this option.
Once through, Cuban customs picked up our family two-way personal radios in the x-rays of our luggage and confiscated them until our return home. Apparently, they are banned as they could pick up channels used by Cuban authorities. It took them 45 minutes to fill out the necessary paperwork for our little $20 "national security risk"!
Our first experience in Cuban soil revealed a lot about the country: some of the nicest, warmest, genuinely caring people you will meet, yet isolated and living in a burocracy that is paranoid of the outside world.
Cubans, unfortunately do not lead an easy life, or one with many luxuries. However, they do seem to have the essentials covered (provided by the government): food, education, and health care. Those I spoke to, in large part, felt their hardships were the result of the American embargo and policies. Having to import goods from Europe made many products too expensive for the average Cuban.
But Cubans live on, as they have for decades, improvising a living and making beautiful music.