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Article: Cuba Turns Embargo into Winning Situation with its Vintage American Cars.
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- April 26, 2002
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By Maria Recio, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 26--HAVANA, Cuba -- They are the ghosts of memory, lumbering through the streets defying rain, rust, salt spray and time. They are in their 40s and 50s now, these survivors of Cuba's old love affair with America.
Their names are Buick, Oldsmobile, Dodge, Ford and Cadillac. And, of course, Chevrolets, especially `55, `56 and `57 Bel Airs.
Cubans call their vintage cars "the Mobile Museum," an unexpected byproduct of the trade embargo imposed by the United States to punish the island for embracing communism. The Kennedy administration cut off the booming ...