Festival of the Ages Kyoto 2013
With the recent ease of U.S. travel restrictions and lifting of limits on the use of American dollars in transactions with Cuba, Havana is beginning to experience a renaissance of international visitors and business development, Havana, Cuba, May 2016. The United States imposed a commercial, economic, and financial blockade against Cuba on Oct. 19,1960 (in Cuba called el bloqueo, “the blockade”). A blockade is economic warfare as defined by the Oxford Dictionary. The Cuban blockade is the most long lasting in modern history. Despite the blockade, the United States is the fifth largest exporter to Cuba (6.6% of Cuba’s imports are from the US). Cuba must, however, pay cash for all imports. No credit is allowed. These images of Havana Cuba are of what remains after 56 years of that economic warfare. The ruins of the Cold War.
