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Article: The graying revolution. (communist Cuba)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 26, 1994
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Along Cuba's coastal Via Blanca last week, thousands of police and Interior Ministry troops fanned out to search vehicles and warn would-be rafters not to leave. They efficiently shut down the monthlong exodus that had filled the Florida Strait with 25,000 Cubans and had threatened to become an unending flotilla of homemade craft bound for U.S. shores.
Meanwhile, in Miramar, a middle-class Havana neighborhood, a literature professor erupts in frustration even before her visitor sits down in her living room: "I can't work, there is no electricity. We're cooking with kerosene or charcoal, if we can find it." A neighbor rises at 2 a.m. on weekends to go to the ...