Toothpick Building Blueprints

CUBA - HAVANA - CHINATOWN

A visit (too fast) in the "Barrio Chino", a picturesque area that I do not know ...

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Chinese immigration is old, dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century: the coolies were then employed in the tobacco plantations and sugar cane.

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Since most of these immigrants were "Cubanisation" but remain in the neighborhood, the decor, ambience, and .... still a few Chinese (are) well-typed (e ) s!

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This young man sells apples, fruit "exotic" for Cuba ... Note that these apples come from (see the carton right) ..... U.S., just as much on food imports or other (it is not uncommon to see roads run huge American trucks "art").

"embargo" is an excuse often used to "explain" the country's economic difficulties.

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READING

Mario Conde, the sympathetic police inspector, investigating in Chinatown ...

Leonardo Padura, author of this excellent novel, states:

"history is a fiction, even if it contains a heavy dose of reality. Here, behind the police resulting Mario Adventure Conde, there is the story of a rootlessness that has always moved a lot: the Chinese who came to Cuba, like so many other economic migrants. The loneliness and rootlessness are logically the subject of this History that did not happen but could have been. "