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Hurricane Irma Aftermath

January 01, 2020 by Carlitos de Jeffers in Cuba

If you did take a wrong turn in the days after Hurricane Irma hit and ended up on calle San Lazaro by mistake, one would be forgiven for thinking it blew hardest through this part of town. The sides of buildings missing, balconies torn off, debris everywhere. But Prado, with its bronzed lions lining the pedestrian boulevard, is the dividing line. To the east, the preserved UNESCO world heritage site. Havana’s money maker. To the west of Prado is the real Havana. It may look like a hurricane has just ravaged it but in reality, it’s the 60-odd years of neglect that’s responsible.

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January 01, 2020 /Carlitos de Jeffers
Hurricane Irma, Calle San Lorenzo, poverty porn, UNESCO, La Habana Vieja, Centro Habana, Central Havana, Old Havana, Prado, Malecón
Cuba
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Surviving Hurricane Irma

December 11, 2019 by Carlitos de Jeffers in Cuba

A sleepless night. The wind howled around the roof, branches fell, and, around 3am, next door’s corrugated roof finally peeled itself clean and flipped, luckily, in some other direction. Lafonda’s mum, as she usually did, knocked on our bedroom door at around 6am carrying two cafecitos. Fittingly, our stash of Cubita and Serrano coffee had run out a few days before and we’d forgotten to buy more. The coffee she brought, then, was classic state-rationed Coffee, the ingredients and quality of a more dubious nature. The repercussions of Irma were already being felt.

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December 11, 2019 /Carlitos de Jeffers
Surviving Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Irma, Cuba, Havana, Miramar, Russian, 2017
Cuba
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