plaza del cristo .... habana vieja
Back from Havana, Cuba ... a return visit before everything changes, as it surely will once any new us/cuba policies are in effect. Was intending to upload a few pics from there but citizens in general still not allowed internet access so no internet-cafes ... a handful of the big hotels have lobby wi-fi but slow & erratic in the extreme.
image: Plaza del Cristo, the smallest of Habana Vieja's five public plazas, as the kids are getting out of school .. uniform colour denotes national middle school. Cuba has one of the best free education systems in the world ... the 'eradication of illiteracy' being Castro's first & subsequently successful post-revolutionary vow 56 years ago. As can be seen from this plaza view, no apparent improvement of the general population's deplorable living conditions since I was there 5 years ago, many still without running water. And minimal, if any, progress on human-rights issues.
plaza del cristo .... habana vieja
Back from Havana, Cuba ... a return visit before everything changes, as it surely will once any new us/cuba policies are in effect. Was intending to upload a few pics from there but citizens in general still not allowed internet access so no internet-cafes ... a handful of the big hotels have lobby wi-fi but slow & erratic in the extreme.
image: Plaza del Cristo, the smallest of Habana Vieja's five public plazas, as the kids are getting out of school .. uniform colour denotes national middle school. Cuba has one of the best free education systems in the world ... the 'eradication of illiteracy' being Castro's first & subsequently successful post-revolutionary vow 56 years ago. As can be seen from this plaza view, no apparent improvement of the general population's deplorable living conditions since I was there 5 years ago, many still without running water. And minimal, if any, progress on human-rights issues.