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Kurlansky’s, here, here
publicity photographs of Hollywood stars, here
black festival in Havana, here
blanquitos, here
boats, lack of, here, here
La Bodeguita del Medio, here, here, here, here
Bolívar, Simón, here
Bosch, Juan, here
botijo (earthenware jug for playing music), here
Brent, William Lee, here
British invasion of Havana, here, here
brothels, here
“Buried Statues” (Benítez Rojo), here
La Cabaña, here
cabildos, here
Cabrera, Lydia, here
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, here, here, here, here, here, here
Capablanca, José Raúl, here
El Capitolio (the Capitol), here
Caribbean ports, here
Caribbean sea, here, here, here
Carnero, Osvaldo “Ova,” here
Carpentier, Alejo, here, here, here, here
cars, here, here, here
Casas, Bartolomé de Las, here
Castillo, Julián, here
Castillo de la Real Fuerza, here, here
Castro, Fidel
baseball prowess, here
and Batista, here
budget allocations bypassing Havana, here
CIA assassination attempts, here
as El Caballo of La Charada, here
extemporaneous, lengthy speeches of, here
good looks of, here
and Hemingway, here
and ice cream, here, here
landing on the coast of Pinar del Río, here
laws governing who can live in Havana, here
and Martí, here
and martyrdom, here
and May Day rally, here
non-Habanero Spanish spoken by, here
and opponents in exile, here
“Pepito” jokes about, here
and prostitution, here
Castro, Raúl, here
Catholicism, here, here, here
cattle and leather as commodities, here
Cayo Hueso, Centro Habana, here, here, here, here
Cayuco (Oscar Blas Fernández), here
Cecilia Valdés (Villaverde)
about, here, here
carriage of wealthy character, here
and dancing, here
on gaming houses and government, here
iced drinks, here
Spanish language at the time of, here
on sweat, here
ceiba trees, here
Cementerio Cristóbal Colón, Vedado, here
Centro Habana
about, here
Cayo Hueso, here, here, here, here
old photographs of, here, here
See also Habana Vieja
ceramic making, here
Céspedes, Yoenis, here
chain gain, Plaza de la Catedral, here
Changó, here, here, here, here
La Charada (artist unknown), here
The Chase (El Acoso) (Carpentier), here, here
Che. See Guevara, Ernesto “Che”
Chibás, Eduardo “Eddy” or “El Loco,” here, here
chicken stew recipe, here
Chinese, here, here, here
Chino de la Charada (artist unknown), here
Chino (Rolando Oye), here
Christmas celebrations, here
Church Committee, U.S. Senate investigation of CIA, here
CIA, here, here
Cienfuegos, Camilo, here, here
cigars, here, here, here
The City of Columns (Ciudad de las Columnas) (Carpentier), here
clubs for entertainment, here, here, here
cockfights, here
cocktails and iced drinks, here, here, here
Cojímar, Cuba, here, here
cola problem, here
Colón (cemetery), Vedado, here
Columbus, Christopher, here, here
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), here
Communism
about, here, here
and expensive hotels, here, here
state ownership of restaurants, here, here, here
See also Batista, Fulgencio
La Conspiración de la Escalera (the Ladder Conspiracy), here
Coolidge, Calvin, here
Coppelia ice cream store, Vedado, here, here
Cortázar, Julio, here
courtship at a window, here, here
crime families, here, here, here, here, here
Cuba
about, here
American occupation, here, here, here
challenges after collapse of Soviet Union, here
demographics, here
police state, here, here
Spanish-American
War, here
uprisings against Spanish rule, here, here
cuba libre (iced cocktail), here, here
Cuban Academy of Language, here
Cuban convertible pesos (CUCs), here
Cuban culture
carriages as status symbols, here
criticism of government, here
death, here
and mulatas, here, here
music, here, here, here
racism, here, here
social status by race, here, here, here
suicides and martyrs, here, here, here
and sweat, here
transculturation process, here, here
and windows, here, here, here, here, here
See also Cecilia Valdés; religion; special period
Cuban Missile Crisis, here
Cuban Revolution (1959)
and Coppelia ice cream store, here
Cuba saved from being like Miami, here
effects of, here, here
goals of, here, here
Jews leaving after, here, here
and Martí, here
and Museo Hemingway, here
music of, here
posters and slogans, here
slave owners’ opposition to, here
and status of women, here
suicides during, here
See also post-revolution
Cuban Revolutionary Army and Bay of Pigs invasion, here
Cuban Revolutionary Party, here, here
culture. See African culture; Cuban culture
Dahomey, African kingdom of, here, here
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., here, here, here, here
dancing, here, here,
here
death
in Cuban culture, here
suicides and martyrs, here, here, here
Death of a Bureaucrat (La Muerte de un Burócrata) (film), here
de Bobadilla, Inéz, here
de Lobera, Juan, here
Desnoes, Edmundo, here, here, here, here, here, here
de Sores, Jacques, here
discrimination against blacks, here
divination, numerology-based, here
Dobronyi, Sepy, here
dolls in windows, here
Don Azpiazú and his Havana Casino Orchestra, here
Dworin, Adela, here
Eire, Carlos, here
electricity, here, here, here
embargo, United States on Cuba, here, here, here, here, here, here
entertainment
clubs, here, here, here
concerts, here, here
dancing, here, here
international performers, here
masked ball and mulata, here
movie theaters, here
television, here, here
See also specific films
Espín, Vilma, here
Estadio Latinoamericano,
here
Estévez, Abilio, here, here
Estrada Palma, Tomás, here
Europe, soccer as symbol of Cuba’s relationship with, here
Evans, Walker, here, here
, here
expatriates
Castro’s opponents in, here
gusañeros and gusanos, here
Habaneros in exile, here, here, here, here, here, here
hatred of Castro, here
sending goods and money back to Cuba, here
Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Vedado, here
Falange (Spanish Fascist movement), here
Family Code (1975), here
family homes as privately-operated restaurants (paladares), here
farmers markets, here
Federation of Cuban
Women, here
Fernández, Oscar Blas “Cayuco,” here
Fernández, Wilfred, here
Fernández Diaz, Joseíto, here
Fernández Supervielle, Manuel, here
Figueredo, Perucho, here
film noir. See black-and-white images
Finlay, Carlos Juan, here
Finney, Michael, here
fish and fishing, here
El Floridita bar and restaurant, here, here, here, here
Flynn, Errol, here
food rationing, here
free blacks and mixed race mulatas
Abekuá, here
and slave revolts,
here
slaves buying their own freedom, here
women and sex industry, here, here
women smoking cigars, here
See also slaves and slavery
Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate) (film), here
Garcia, Julio, here
García Lorca, Federico, here
Ginés, Teodora, here
Ginsberg, Allen, here
Giraldilla (statute), here
Girona, Mario, here
God, here, here, here
Gómez, Máximo, here
González, Elián, here
González Echevarría, Roberto, here, here
Goyri de Adot, Amelia, here
Granados, María, here
Grau, Ramón, here
Greene, Graham, here, here, here
Grobart, Fabio, here
“Guántanamera” (Diaz), here
Guantánamo, here
Guas, Mariano, here
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”
death of, here
good looks of, here
industrialization of Cuba, here
on the revolution, here
role in the revolution, here
Socialism or Death! poster, here
Guillén, Nicolás, here, here, here
gusañero (exile who supports the revolution), here
gusano (worms, exiles), here
Gutiérrez, Pedro Juan, here, here, here, here
Habana Riviera, Vedado, here
Habana Vieja (bay and its waterfront)
about, here, here, here
as Kurlansky’s film noir setting, here
Malecón, here, here, here
narrow streets and sidewalks, here, here, here, here
photographs forbidden, here
slave owners’ mansions, here
wall around, here, here, here, here
See also Centro Habana
Habaneros
about, here, here, here
attraction to women with ample posteriors, here
and baseball strategy, here, here
and Batista dictatorship, here
Cuban women and European men, here
and dancing, here
exile experience, here, here, here, here, here, here
and government, here
and Havana weather, here
and movie stars, here
pets of, here
and the sea, here, here
waiting in line for ice cream ritual, here
Haiti, here
Haitian Revolution (1804), here
Hassam, Childe, here, here
Hatuey (Taino leader), here
Havana
about, here, here, here, here
Americans purchasing real estate, here
architecture, here, here, here
and Batista dictatorship, here
British invasion of, here, here
Cementerio Cristóbal Colón, here
founding of San Cristóbal de la Habana I, II, and III, here
growth during American occupation, here, here
growth of, here, here, here
and Hurricane of Santa Teresa (1768), here
impressions of, here, here, here, here, here
paranoia in, here
restaurants, bars, and gambling venues, here, here, here
Spanish conquerors, here
street names and development, here
technology in, here
See also Centro Habana; Habana Vieja
Havana Bay, pollution in, here. See also Habana Vieja
Havana Electric Railway Co., New York, here
Havana harbor, here, 34. See also Habana Vieja
Havana Hilton (Habana Libre), here, here
Havana Red (Mácaras) (Padura Fuentes), here
Hazard, Samuel, here
Hemingway, Ernest, here, here, here, here, here, here
Hemingway Museum, here, here, here
Hernández Catá, Alfonso, here
Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden (Padilla), here
hijackers and “the hijacker house,” here
historic building restoration, here
Hollywood stars, here, here
homosexuality, here
Hotel Ambos Mundos, Habana Vieja, here
Hotel Nacionale, here
housing shortage, here, here, here, here
Hughes, Langston, here, here
Von Humboldt, Alexander, here, here
Huntington, Anna Vaughn Hyatt, here
Hurricane of Santa Teresa (1768), here
Hurricane Wilma (2005), here
“The Hymn of Bayamo” (“La Bayamesa”) (Figueredo), here
ice cream, here, here
iced drinks and cocktails, here, here, here
“I Hate the Sea” (“Odio el Mar”) (Martí), here, here
La Imprenta Restaurant, here
Inconsolable Memories (Desnoes), here, here, here, here, here
Industriales baseball team, here, here
international airport in Havana, here
Jews (polacos), here, here
Jobabo mine slave uprising, here
journalists in Cuba, here, here, here, here
Kennedy, John F., here
Key West, Florida, here, here,
here
Korda, Alberto, here, here
Kurlansky, Mark, here, here,
here
Ladas (cars), here
the Ladder Conspiracy (La Conspiración de la Escalera), here
Lalique, René, here
Lam, Wifredo, here
Lansky, Meyer, here, here
de Lares, Amador, here
The Last Supper (La Ultima Cena) (film), here
leather products, here
Lemus, José Francisco, here
Leslie, Frank, here
Lezama Lima, José, here,
here
lobster, here
London, Cuban exiles in, here
Lonely Planet guidebook, here
López, Narciso, here
Lorca, here, here, here
Loynaz, Dulce María, here, here, here
Luque, Dolf, here
Mácaras (Havana Red) (Padura Fuentes), here
Machado, Gerardo, here, here, here
Malecón, here, here, here
mameyes, British as, here
Manifest Destiny doctrine, here
“El Manisero” son (Simons), here
Martí, José “Apostle of Freedom”
about, here
as abolitionist, here
and baseball, here
on being in exile in Spain, here
and Cuban Revolutionary Party, here
on Cubans who supported th
e Spanish, here
fighting the Spanish in Cuba, here, here
irresistibility of, here
in New York City, here
obsession with death, here
opposition to U.S. possession of Cuba, here, here, here
statutes of, here, here, here
on white people’s fear of black people, here
writings of, here, here, here
Martínez, Ángel, here, here
martyrs and suicides, here, here, here
masked ball and mulata, here
Mayan workers from Yucatán Peninsula, here
May Day rally, Plaza de la Revolución, here
McKim, Mead and White, architects, here
McKinley, William, here
medicine shortage, here
Meilan, Antonio, here
Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarollo) (film), here
Mercado, Manuel, here
Mercado 19 y B open-air market, here
Meucci, Antonio, here
Mexico, United States invasion of, here
Milanés, Pablo, here
Miramar, here, here
Mojito recipe, here
Montaner, Rita, here
the Morro, here, here, here
Motivos de Son (Guillén), here
movie theaters, here. See also television; specific films
La Muerte de un Burócrata (Death of a Bureaucrat) (film), here
Muir, John, here
La Mulata del Sabor paladar, here
mulatas, here, here. See also Cecilia Valdés
Museo Hemingway, here, here, here
music
about, here
African, here
nueva trova, here, here
pachanga, here
of the revolution, here
rhumba, here
son, here, here, here
muy atrás (ample posteriors), here
neighborhood services, here
New York City, here, here
nicknames, here
Nin, Anaïs, here
nocout (baseball game ended after seventh inning), here
nueva trova music, here
numerology-based divination, here
Obatalá, here
“Odio el Mar” (“I Hate the Sea”) (Martí), here, here
Oggún, here, here
oil and gasoline shortage, here
Old Man and the Sea, The (film), here
opera, here
Operation Mongoose (CIA), here
Orbón, Julían, here
organic farm in Atabey, here
organized crime, here, here, here, here, here
orishas, here, here, here, here, here. See also specific orishas
Ortiz, Fernando, here, here, here
Orula, here
“Our America” (Marti), here
Our Man in Havana (film), here, here, here
Our Man in Havana (Greene), here
Our New Possessions (White), here
Oye, Rolando “Chino,” here
pachanga music, here
Padilla, Heberto, here, here
Padura, Leonardo, here, here, here, here
Padura Fuentes, Leonardo, here
Paisaje de Otoño (Havana Black) (Padura), here
Palacio de los Capitanes Generales in the Plaza de Armas, here, here