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  • Luis Ramon Lopez Pelegrino emerges from a swim in the ocean along the Malecon (the seafront wall and walkway bordering the city) in Havana, Cuba, displaying a recently-inked tattoo identifying him as a member of the Abakua or Abakuá (various spellings are used). The Abakua is an all-male, initiatory secret society of Afro-Cuban religion. The first such societies were established by Africans in the town of Regla, Havana, in 1836, and this remains the main area of Abakuá presence, including the district of Guanabacoa in eastern Havana. Abakua presence is also strong  in the city of  Matanzas, several hours east of Havana, where Afro-Cuban culture is vibrant. The Abakua societies, whose traditions were brought by African slaves imported to Cuba, are believed to have originated from fraternal associations in the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Night scene of Havana Cuba. The dominant building, center is the darkened dome of the Capitolio building in downtown Havana. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • A well worn path through the rubble leads to home for many inhabitants of the surrounding buildings of  this lot in Havana Vieja, Cuba, where previously a structure once stood.  In the dense city of Havana, the spaces where deteriorating buildings have fallen or been demolished by the state, (which lacks resources to repair or construct new buildings, often despite their historical or architectural significance), if able to be cleared, are often filled with playgrounds, basketball courts, car lots, or mechanic's shops. Many lots otherwise sit with rubble piles in place for years at a time, or are cleared slowly over a number of months or years.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • A roughly hewn, but nonetheless colorful children's playground in Havana Vieja, Cuba, fills the space between buildings where another structure once stood.  In the dense city of Havana, the spaces where deteriorating buildings have fallen or been demolished by the state, if able to be cleared, are often filled with playgrounds, basketball courts, car lots, or mechanic's shops. Many lots otherwise sit with rubble piles in place for years at a time, or are cleared slowly over a number of months or years. The state is in dire  lack of resources to repair or construct new buildings, despite their historical or architectural significance.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • View of the famous Malecon, or seafront wall, walkway and street, which border the city of Havana Cuba to the north.  This photo, looking west,  shows a skyscape of Havana's iconic buildings including Vedado's Habana Libre Hotel, The Hotel Nacional, the Jose Martí Anti-Imperialist Plaza and the American Interests Section building. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • A parking lot attendant, who did not wish to be identified by name for fear of police presence in the area, works the night shift with his dog for company on San Lazaro street in Centro Havana, Cuba. In the dense city of Havana, the spaces where deteriorating buildings have fallen or been demolished by the state, if able to be cleared, are often filled with playgrounds, basketball courts, car lots, or mechanic's shops. The state is in dire lack of the resources necessary to repair or construct new buildings, despite their historical or architectural significance. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Small notes announcing a desire to make a trade, or permuta, of state-managed habitation, are tacked to at tree on Havana, Cuba's Prado, at a designated meeting location where people gather once or twice a month to advertise and discuss trades. The notes list the location and details of the habitation to be traded.  Since all housing is state issued and managed, and no one holds legal ownership of property, trades for habitations of similar size to the one originally issued to an individual or family by the government are acceptable. The state distributes housing based on family size and needs.   In a trade, for example, a three or four member family originally living in a two bedroom apartment with a kitchen may be looking to trade for two small, separate apartments-one for the parents, and the other for a newly married adult child and partner. Trades can also be made between those wishing to move into or outside of the city of Havana, or within different neighborhoods of a given city. All final trades must be approved by the government. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Yumilla Cruz pauses for a portrait between serving customers ice cream at a small state-run sidewalk shop on the busy street Monte, in the innercity Havana neighborhood of Jesus Maria, where Cruz resides.  Small ice cream cones, made from milk powders due to lack of available dairy in the country, are sold to locals for several cents in Cuban Peso currency. The cones provide a small, cheap, treat and momentary break from the tropical heat. The heat can be particularly oppressive in inner-city Havana, where there is an excess of factory dust, diesel exhaust from busy roadways, a greater density of inhabitants, and little sea-breeze reaching the interior for relief.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Vintage car taxis, or maquinas, and bicitaxis gather at a central departure point next the Parque de la Fraternidad, south of the Capitolio building in Havana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Interior of state-run rations office, Centro Havana, Cuba. To the left is the distribution board, listing amounts and types of food, such as rice and sugar, to be issued to each person. Government propaganda is tacked to the board to the right. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Night has fallen over the empty 6th floor pool of the Hotel Deauville, above the corners of San Lazaro and Galiano, in the Havana, Cuba neighborhood of Centro Habana. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Neighbors try to catch some fresh air and play an afternoon game of chess sitting out on what is left of the second-story, inner-balcony floor of their deteriorating apartment building in Centro Havana, Cuba, 1999.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Interior of a state-run rations office in Centro Havana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Foreign tourists relax at the 6th floor pool of the Hotel Deauville, above the corners of San Lazaro and Galiano streets, in the Havana, Cuba neighborhood of Centro Habana. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Cityscape, Centro Havana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Children play tag games in the street while adults hover in doorways and sit on doorsteps on a darkened block of their inner city neighborhood of Jesus Maria, in Havana, Cuba.  Rolling electrical blackouts, due to infrastructure problems and a lack of oil in the country, drive residents into the streets to escape the heat and darkness of the buildings.  The random blackouts can often strike one block, while leaving the next illuminated. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Children play tag games in the street while adults hover in doorways and sit on doorsteps on a darkened block of their inner city neighborhood of Jesus Maria, in Havana, Cuba.  Rolling electrical blackouts, due to infrastructure problems and a lack of oil in the country, drive residents into the streets to escape the heat and darkness of the buildings.  The random blackouts can often strike one block, while leaving the next illuminated. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Residents of Havana, Cuba, sit -and walk- on the Malecon, or seafront wall, on a particularly hot summer afternoon, while watching swimmers on the rocks and in the water below. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Eliza Lopez, far right, pauses to address neighbors at the door while hand sifting through rice to check for small rocks. Sifting the government-rationed rice is a daily ritual for Lopez before preparing the midday meal in the kitchen of her sister Milagro Suarez, far left, in the Havana, Cuba neighborhood of Jesus Maria. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • From left to right, neighbors Mariana Dilu Hernandez, 9, Stefanie Pelegrino, 7, and Davey Adria, 10, clown around in the passageway of their apartment building in the Havana, Cuba neighborhood of Jesus Maria.  The wood supports under which they are playing are holding up the deteriorating roof above the passageway.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Detail, deteriorating building, Havana Vieja, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Children play tag games in the street while adults hover in doorways and sit on doorsteps on a darkened block of their inner city neighborhood of Jesus Maria, in Havana, Cuba.  Rolling electrical blackouts, due to infrastructure problems and a lack of oil in the country, drive residents into the streets to escape the heat and darkness of the buildings.  The random blackouts can often strike one block, while leaving the next illuminated. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Interior of state-run rations office, Centro Havana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • From left to right, Yaniel Mesa, 14, Yanel Boucer Forte, 15, and Vuriogoso Martinez, 14, pause for a portrait while shooting hoops at a community basketball court in Havana Vieja, Cuba.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Posters of Pedro Agustin Perez Perez,  left, and Fidel Castro, center, in the entryway of a government building, Havana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • A wall of simply-made targets hang ready at a toy-gun shooting range on Calle Monte, a main street running into inner-city Havana, Cuba.  For a couple of cents in Cuban Pesos, customers can take pellet shots for a few moments of fun at paper targets and empty soft drink cans strung up against a back wall of the shop. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • José Antonio Fernandez, of Habana Vieja, Cuba, pauses for a portrait between serving customers at a state-run, sidewalk toy-gun shooting range on Calle Monte, a main street running into inner-city Havana.  For a couple of cents in Cuban Pesos, customers can take pellet shots for a few moments of fun at paper targets and empty soft drink cans strung up against a back wall of the shop. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Sidewalk jewelry vendor Alberto Quinzales sells his wares from his tiny stand, set up in a doorway on the street Monte, a busy thoroughfare that runs into inner-city Havana, Cuba.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Residents of Havana, Cuba, swim and socialize on the rocks, and in the Banos del Mar, or sea baths located just below the Malecon, or seafront wall and walkway, bordering the edge of the city.  The sea baths, which are exposed at low tide, were cut out of the reef decades before the construction of the Malecon began in 1901. The baths are about 12 feet square and 6-8 feet deep, with rock steps for access and gaps to allow waves to wash in and out. The baths were originally designated before the turn of the century with separate areas for men, women, and negros. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Lucas Hernandez Vazquez, 78, poses for a portrait on the sidewalk of his Habana, Cuba neighborhood of Jesus Maria. Originally from the western province of Pinar del Rio, Vazquez has lived for 58 years in La Habana. Before the revolution he had traveled to Mexico, Germany, Venezuela, Miami, and Los Angeles. After the revolution he spent many years as a mechanic in  Havana.   He resides with one of his four adult children in Jesus Maria.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • A female Afro-Cuban folkloric musician performs, playing the chequere in a devotional song to the Orisha or Afro-Cuban diety, Yemaya, at a public arts event in Havana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Interior, kitchen, Jesus Maria, Havana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Detail, Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Late Night, Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Pablo Torres Hernandez makes a move during an afternoon game of dominoes among neighbors in Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • An afternoon match of dominoes breaks out among neighbors on the sidewalk on Galiano street, Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Ana Maria Cruz, 82, sits with her dog in the bedroom of her small apartment in Centro Habana, Cuba. Cruz lives alone, but is often visited and is well attended to by her two grown daughters and extended family after her husband's death two years prior.  In two weeks from the time of this photo, she would be leaving the island for the first time to visit her oldest child, a son, who lives as an ex-pat in England. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • René Alcair, of  Habana Vieja, Cuba, pauses for a rare break while working on a sweltering summer day at the desk of a government-run bread dispensary in his neighborhood, where he has both baked and distributed bread for 11 years.  A remaining outpost of the post-revolution rationing system, the dispensary distributes the allotted weekly amounts of bread rationed to registered residents of the neighborhood. Alcair marks down the amounts received in each person's paper government rations booklet, or libreta, as they come through each day.  Extra bread can also be purchased for a few cents in the Cuban peso currency.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Interior, Hotel Nacional, Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • A deteriorating building frontice, scaffolding and mural along the Prado, a main walkway through the central area of downtown Habana, Cuba.  The scaffolding have been in place supporting the building frontice long enough for foliage to have grown up several stories into it's upper reaches. It was unclear at the time of the photo whether the remains of the building were intended to be demolished, or restored.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Elina Miro Rodriguez contemplates her next move during an afternoon match of Dominoes in Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Pablo Torres Hernandez, left, and Elina Miro Rodriguez contemplate their next moves during an afternoon match of Dominoes in Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Elina Miro Rodriguez keeps score on an old chalkboard during an afternoon match of Dominoes between four people in Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Fading propaganda mural, Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Late Night, Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Still life, Habana Vieja, Cuba.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Interior, Casa de Asia, Habana Vieja, Cuba. The painting to the left was a gift from the Korean leader Il Sung Kim to Fidel Castro for his 60th birthday..Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Stefanie Pelegrino, 7, holds up a small charm displaying a symbol believed to ward off the evil eye. The symbol is often worn as an amulet, found hanging in the entryways, or painted on the walls of Cuban homes.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Stefanie Pelegrino, 7, of the Habana, Cuba neighborhood of Jesus Maria, sits for a portrait. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Bikes and Bicitaxis, Habana Vieja, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Interior, Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Jeorge Gonzalez works the desk at the poorly stocked neighborhood rations office, or Bodega, in the Habana, Cuba neighborhood of Centro Habana. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Jeorge Gonzalez works the desk at the neighborhood rations office, or Bodega, in the Habana, Cuba neighborhood of Centro Habana. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Pablo Torres Hernandez guards his pieces before the next move in an afternoon match of Dominoes. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Street scene, Habana Vieja, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Street scene, Calle Monte, in the neighborhood of Jesus Maria, Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Jorge Suarez, age 10, plays a round of marbles in the passageway in front of his mother's apartment in the neighborhood of Jesus Maria, La Habana, Cuba, 1999. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • From left to right, the hands of neighbors Mariana Dilu Hernandez, 9, Stefanie Pelegrino, 7, and Davey Adria, 10, hold up Spanish language Yu-gi-oh  game cards against the wall of the main passageway of their apartment building in the Habana, Cuba neighborhood of Jesus Maria.  Yu-gi-oh cards, originally from China, are a children's game and sets of collector cards that have reached international popularity with children worldwide.  Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Street scene, late afternoon on Calle Monte, in the neighborhood of Jesus Maria, La Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Fading propaganda paintings, Centro Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Colorful public art sculptures stand out in striking contrast to the antiquated architecture of a restored building-front in Habana Vieja, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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  • Calle Monte, in the neighborhood of Jesus Maria, Habana, Cuba. Photo by Jen Klewitz
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