Life in Viñales

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A simple day-to-day struggle, working their own small plantation. Not many material belongings.. they have each other.

As you can see this is not a planned family portrait. Otherwise the working outfit would have been replaced!

January 7  2005.

The world according to PJ Gutiérrez

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Pedro Juan Gutiérrez is a Cuban novelist who is sometimes described as a Caribbean Bukowski.  Try “Dirty Havana Trilogy”

This is at his penthouse close to Malecon in Havana. Much of the story in his books happens in this very house and the surroundings.