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By Clair Enlow

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September 18, 2002

In Cuba, the future of the past seems assured

  • Cuba has a stock of modernist landmakrs and masterpieces, as well as heavy-handed international style housing blocks and towering casinos.
  • By CLAIR ENLOW
    Design Perspectives

    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.

    Plaza Mayor
    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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