Despite a succession of sweeping changes in recent years – rapprochement with the US, Fidel Castro’s death – the rhythm of life on the island remains as languid as ever. In Old Havana, locals still watch life go by from the balconies of their dilapidated colonial buildings, as classic American cars putter down cobblestone streets and seemingly endless games of dominoes play out on sidewalk tables. Tourists love the island’s timelessness, which gives it the aura of a living postcard immune to change. A tourist talks to locals next to an old American car in Havana. (Yamil Lage/AFP) For Cubans, who have made standing in line an art form and bureaucracy a way of life,...
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