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Article: Cuba, still rolling along.
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- Geographical
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Simon Calder jumps into a 1957 Chevrolet and makes a journey through Cuba from its capital city Havana, to Santiago, the birthplace of the 1959 Revolution
COULD THERE BE ANY BETTER time or place to be alive? You are cruising along an empty highway beside the Sierra Maestra, the greatest range of mountains in the Caribbean. At times, the craggy foothills come so close that they threaten to squeeze you into the sea. The monstrous engine of the '57 Chevrolet purrs contentedly beneath a brochure-blue sky. As you drift past yet another gorgeous arc of untrodden sand, you reflect that, at exactly the time this car was built, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro were fighting ...