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Article: Paradox rules in Cuba: where 'the simplest things are always the most complicated'.(CUBA)(Cover story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 24, 2006
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Part 1 of 2 on Cuba Part I looks at daily life as Cubans experience it, 47 years after the revolution, from free baseball to frequent blackouts. Part 2 will look at the Catholic church in Cuba today.
Salvador Marquez is an industrial engineer who drives a taxi, works 12 hours a day seven days a week, and lives with his wife and three children in his mother-in-law's apartment because of Cuba's chronic housing shortage. Yet when his 5-year-old son draws a picture for a foreign visitor, Marquez insists he add a Cuban flag. And he is bursting with pride because 15-year-old Antonio has been accepted into the Lenin Vocational School.
Marquez prefers to talk ...