Amanda Rivkin

Cuba: Second Age of Castro

HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban schoolchildren are brought to attention to recite the national hymn, which includes the verse "to die for the fatherland is to live," outside the Camilo Cienfuegos Primary School on March 10, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Women assist a young girl in trying on children's shoes in a free market area for local vendors and consumers in old Havana on March 12, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Customers pass through an "Agropecuario," the ubiquitous state-subsidized fruit and vegetable market where each Cuban receives rations at a below-market subsidized price that they purchase with their ration cards and Cuban national pesos, on March 7, 2010.
     
  
HAVANA, CUBA. Two women greet each other in a line for basic necessities pasta and sugar, subsidized by the state, in the Parque de la Fraternidad downtown on March 9, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Women outside the Sortija Shop adorned with the rare aparition of Western models in advertisements, instead of the ubiquitous revolutionary propaganda located prominently around the country on billboards and inside shops, restaurants and grocery stores, on March 12, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Shopkeepers tend to customers in the clothing department of the America Libre department store just after opening on San Rafael Street downtown on March 9, 2010.
     
  
HAVANA, CUBA. Italy Avenue or Guarida Avenue, as it is known to locals, a main downtown shopping thoroughfare, on March 10, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. A manicurist provides private manicures in her living room in central Havana on March 15, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. A home electronics repair shop idowntown on March 8, 2010. Cubans typically have to pay extra in Cuban convertible pesos to have their home electronics fixed as opposed to merely examined.
     
  
HAVANA, CUBA. "The Creteans Corner" at the Museum of the Revolution on March 7, 2010 features former American Presidents George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and pre-revolutionary Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista. Beside the exagerrated caricature of each man is a plaque thanking them for their help in sustaining the revolution.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban schoolchildren play before being brought to attention to recite the national hymn outside the Camilo Cienfuegos Primary School on March 10, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. One room of the upper tier Copelia Ice Cream "Cathedral," a popular attraction for Cubans Friday night on March 12, 2010. Ubiquitous revolutionary advertisements adorn the upper tier of the Copelia.
     
  
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban children aged nine and ten wait their turn on the baseball field, a national pass time, at a track and field arena beside the Straights of Florida on March 9, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban children aged nine and ten play baseball, a national pass time, at a track and field arena beside the Straights of Florida on March 9, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban lovers relax on Sunday afternoon along the eight kilometer-long seaside boardwalk Malecon on March 7, 2010. Many Cubans say the only thing that is free and easy in their country is love, although readily admit it is not always free given the excessive amount of "jinetera," or prostitution, largely fueled by wealthy European sex tourists.
     
  
HAVANA, CUBA. Central Havana, March 10, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. A cuban woman waits for a friend outside the Linea y L Store in the Vedado neighborhood on March 9, 2010.