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Fidel Castro: Before and After
All anyone needs to know about Fidel Castro appears in the photographs below. The first two–the two in black and white–are stills from the film Our Man in Havana. Shot in Havana just months before the revolution, the film captured street scenes showing a prosperous, functioning city. The second two photographs? Havana today.
His earlier piece is also informative.
Yeah, I’ll bet it’s hard to find chemicals for the rooftop pools these days.
From a recent BBC News story (most of which tend to focus on shortages that they want to blame on the US embargo): “It isn’t easy running [Cuba’s one and only licensed] tattoo parlor … particularly when trying to obtain sterilization equipment, fresh needles, new ink, and surgical gloves.”
Just ink them like they do in other prisons, Comrades!