Photos: Cuba as Castro retires at 81
Post-election images from the provincial tourist town of Viñales in the west, to the semi-tropical cacao plantations of Baracoa in the east. The Cuban leader will not run again as president at the National Assembly on 24 February
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By Alison Micklem. , Leeds.
22/02/08
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(Photos: nelson piedra (nopiedra)/ sagarabardon/ Flickr)
With Che Guevara, and on 19 February 2008 (Photos: nelson piedra (nopiedra)/ sagarabardon/ Flickr)
Homepage photo: (Carolonline/ Flickr)
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With virtually no product advertising in Cuba, people are bombarded with revolutionary quotes by Che Guevara, Fidel and Joseph Marti.
´Volveran´ ('They'll come back') refers to the five imprisoned Cuban secret service agents who were working to infiltrate anti-Castro Cuban groups in Miami in the nineties, hailed in Cuba as national heroes and martyrs for the cause |
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Tobacco farmer, Viñales. Like every other worker in the country from cleaner to doctor, he earns a flat state wage of 200 pesos (about 20 USDs) a month for his work. Unusually, he is allowed to keep 5% of his produce for personal use. He offers tourists freshly squeezed sugar cane juice, rum and cigars, which he rolls by hand from a single leaf and seals with honey
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