Check out any tourist guide for Cuba or watch any film about Havana, the capital, and most likely what you will see is an American classic cars. These iconic cars used for everyday purposes in the Cuban capital, the scene can not see in any other country. The presence of the rainbow colors of classic cars has become a motive to attract tourists, which mixes with the car "Lada" Soviet and Chinese modern cars that fill the streets of the city. They are estimated at sixty thousand cars manufactured in the United States in the late fifties, and still in use in the time in which the average American today to change his car at a rate of once every four years. But, what reason to keep these cars and how you are going after all these years? To investigate so I decided to do a tour of Havana with Rene and Remus, who said he inherited the car Dodge Coronet "expose" Model 58 from his grandfather. Remus "The tourists - says a lot of Cuban Americans - trying to convince him to sell the car for them," he continues, "I do not want to sell this car ever, there is a display of 60 and 70 thousand dollars, but I always refuse." And Remus is a mechanic was working for the government, as is the case of three-quarters of Cubans, but his popularity with tourists led him to quit his job. Now is the line up in front of hotels, like bees on flowers, swirling around the tourists to take a tour of this iconic car for $ 30 per hour. So I met I Primus, who allowed me to photograph our tour, which included the old US Embassy and (future), and the building of the People's Assembly (under renovation), inspired by the Chinese, "Chinatown," he says Remus "the only Chinatown devoid of Chinese", as well as Nachunal hotel honored built by the Americans in their twenties and then seized by the Cuban government after the revolution. "Here was a Los Fadz Americans playground," Remus said, pointing his finger to the hotel located near the sea, "but the revolution ended everything." Remus says he loves old cars with varied colors and compares modern car that says she feels bored when you look at it. Also says he rejoices when astonish tourists that the car still works, and adds that "the old American cars are a source of pride for us Cubans, representing resourcefulness we have. In such cars cut Russian and Chinese parts represent Mohptna and our intelligence." The date on which kept the cars back to the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro When seized power in 1959, to prevent Cubans from buying cars from abroad without government permission. The US blockade of the right that in 1961, prevented the export of American products, including cars to Cuba. Now the Cuban government imposes heavy taxes on new cars, and the economic blockade imposed by the United States continues to raise the price of spare parts as well. Remus describes the scene as follows: "There are new cars now come, but until the seventies there were no other cars. At that time, was the only government cars, and maybe get them if you're a singer or athlete famous, but in the seventies became Ladas come from Union Soviet. " Remus says the Car Care is not easy, but expensive, and wishes to bring openness with the United States not only pieces of the parts, but Suaha afford these
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