Design Perspectives By Clair Enlow

September 18, 2002

In Cuba, the future of the past seems assured

June is one of several melting months in Cuba, but this year the heat was matched by political animosity, stirred up by President Bush’s May speech in Miami, in which he voiced unwavering support of the 40-year-old U.S. trade embargo and demanded free elections.

Photos by Clair Enlow The Plaza Mayor in Trinidad. Trinidad is the capital of Cuba’s Valley of the Sugar Mills.

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