CUBA: Sugar & Shooting

"They still shoot a lot but they don't bring us more than eight or nine corpses a day now. We don't need to burn them in piles any more. I guess today we'll have time to wait and bury these in the cool of the evening."

This homely comment by the morgue keeper at Colon Cemetery summed up the less important, the bloody side of conditions in Havana last week as neat little

Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes worked like a nailer to entrench his new Government (TIME, Aug. 21). Most of Havana...

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