The Sounds of Salsa Fade from Cuba

A vintage taxi picks up passengers at the Hotel Nacional. Cuba's glut of old American cars has less to do with nostalgia than with the crippling economics of the U.S. embargo.
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On the Town
A vintage taxi picks up passengers at the Hotel Nacional. Cuba's glut of old American cars has less to do with nostalgia than with the crippling economics of the U.S. embargo.

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