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MARIO J. TORRES
Havana City
Nowadays
The capital of the island used to be one of the most beautiful cities in the
world. Nowadays, the visitor who saw it forty years ago would not recognize
it for the worse. These are some of the negative changes:
(a) It has lost almost all its night life and lights and it is practically
in the dark except in tourist areas.
(b) People, who used to be elegant, are now badly dressed and even some
of them in rags, in sandals and without shirts.
(c) There is a culture of alcohol drinking and a trend for robbery and
violence
(d) Due to the lack of public transportation, the trucks and trailers
already mentioned here, whose popular name is CAMELS for the design of the
trailer, have been introduced in place of buses and these vehicles are
tearing the streets up due to their weight and load.
(e) The paint of all buildings and houses is fading away and the city has
lost its colors.
(f) The growing quantity of taxi-bikers and horse-and-buggy carts give it
a worse look.
(g) Many old buildings and houses are falling down but instead of rebuilding
them, they let them become giant trash deposits and besides garbage is
everywhere in the street whereas most houses have rustic advertisements for
home-cafeterias or “paladar” restaurants with different types of food sale.
In conclusion, the city has been practically destroyed.
MARIO J TORRES
APRIL 2004
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