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There are some things that identify each country, Cuba has many. In this photo I want to represent some of the elements that identify this beautiful country.
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Boxing in Cuba (6)
Bandage of a young Cuban boxer.
During the last 30 years Cuba has produced more World Champions and Olympic gold medalists in amateur boxing than any other country. Many famous fighters, who came out of Cuba, trained at Rafael Trejo boxing gym in their youth. This run down open air facility in the Old Havana is a place of learning and mastering the art of boxing with the old school style. Boys begin their training when they are very young. As sports receive a high political priority in Cuba, all children are systematically encouraged to develop their skills. Those who succeed will become heroes of Cuban society.
Cuban School Students (4)
Cuban school children wear a simple, but standardized school uniform. The uniform varies by school level. Kindergarten children wear a white top, blue bottom, and blue scarf. Primary children wear a white top, red bottom, and red scarf. The secondary school uniform is a white top and yellow bottom.
We traveled to Cuba to see what could very well be the last episode of a true Marxist-Leninist socialist state, ruled by The People, and by Fidel of course. Che Guevara is still a big hero here but he'd turn over in his grave if he knew that already a 'second economy' is emerging in Cuba. Many Cubans are equal but a growing number is 'more equal'. Orwell had a point.
Anyway, Cuba was -and still is- an interesting experiment, so much more cheerful than communist Eastern Europe was before The Wall came down. But Cuba is just as poor and broken down...
It's also very pretty.
I took a few snapshots I'll be showing you.
As Cubans head out to the beach to escape the summer heat of crowded cities, many are making the drive in relics from another era.
Tens of thousands of vintage American cars remain scattered throughout the country, manufactured before the revolution and subsequent US embargo in 1960. In the summers and at classic car shows, the old American models end up on display.
With no automobile imports coming in, the cars are preserved by Cuban mechanics and improvised fixes by the owners themselves.
Boxing in Cuba (18)
A young six-year old boy watches a fight between two boxers on the ring of a gym in Guanabacoa, a colonial township in eastern Havana.
Cuban children today begin to box at 8 or 10 years of age. There’s no time to lose—there are many competitors in an island filled with boxers. If you don’t start to train at an early age, you’ll never get to be a champ. Also, Cubans are famous for their skills in all combat sports. A chain of gyms throughout the country give young boys the chance to practice boxing under all requisite rules and regulations as well as safety measures. “Sport is the right of the people” is the slogan of the National Institute of Sport, Physical Education and Recreation.
Cuban hand-brake securing an old timer early one morning in Centro Havana.
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Dans les rues de Trinidad inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. Province de Sancti Spíritus, Cuba.