Veradero, Cuba: Deep in Matanzas Province our delegation recreated the experience of the Venceremos Brigade of more than 30 years ago, when hundreds, if not thousands, of left leaning folks made their way to Cuba to provide voluntary labor to help bring in the sugar harvest, create the new economy, and save the revolution. This …
Month: March 2004
Cuba: Tourism and transition
Veradero, Cuba: Today we met two different groups of workers in Matanzas Province. We visited at length with mill workers producing cereal lines in Cardenas. We also visited hotel construction workers at the tip of the Veradaro peninsula involved in a joint venture with the French that was half completed. In all likelihood both groups, …
Cuba: Varadero
Tonight we have hot water, even though we are all bunked in suites with four people and a shared living room. Everyone is gritty, but happy! We have made it to Varadero, the Habaneros playa – a small town of 18000 with long running beaches that used to be the playground for people from Havana, …