Female Cuban soldiers at a military parade in Revolution Square in Havana on 16 April 2011. As Cuba prepared for the future through the latest Communist Party Congress, it gave tribute to the past in a magnificent parade to mark the 50th anniversary of the victory against the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Cuban military units and civilians participating in the the parade in honour of the 50th anniversary of the victory in the Bay of Pigs on Revolution Square in Havana.
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Mercedes Betancourt, the widow of a veteran of the battle at the Bay of Pigs, shows off memorabilia of her husband Toribio Pozosa, such as military medals and documents, in her home in Havana.
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Retired Colonel Rafael Soldevilla, a 74-year-old veteran of the Battle of the Bay of Pigs, at his home in Havana on 19 March 2011.
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Cubans on the beach of Playa Larga in the Bay of Pigs, Matanzas Province, on 17 April 2011. It was one of the beaches where the American invaders landed in April 1961.
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Woman on the street in Havana on 26 October 2010, when the UN General Assembly voted against the US embargo on Cuba. It adopted an unbinding resolution, 187 votes in favour, two against, and three abstentions… this was the 19th consecutive year that such a measure passed, reflecting the general disapproval found around the world to the unwillingness of Washington to abandon its attempt to isolate Havana economically.
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Peasant preparing lettuce on a collective farm on the outskirts of Havana on 24 March 2011. The Cuban state gives loans to peasants who rent state-owned land, to increase the food supply.
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Workers at the Partagas cigar factory near a portrait of revolutionary hero Che Guevara in Havana on 24 February 2011. Sales of Cuban cigars rose 2 percent in 2010, since Cuba and the Middle East bucked the tide of anti-smoking laws engulfing the planet. Sales of Cuban cigars brought in 368 million dollars (10.238 billion Roubles 251 million Euros 223 million UK Pounds) in foreign exchange.
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Craftsman running a small business on the streets of Havana on 22 September 2010.
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Fidel Castro Ruz (1926- ) made an unexpected appearance at the latest Cuban Communist Party Congress in Havana on 19 April 2011.
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President Raúl Castro Ruz (1931- ) addressing the Cuban Communist Party Congress on 16 April 2011.
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Delegates voting at the Cuban Communist Party Congress for a new Party Central Committee on 18 April 2011.
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Employees of the state-owned tobacco company H. Upmann vote after a debate over the new guidelines for the Cuban economy in Havana on 6 December 2010 at a union meeting.
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An auto driving on a road in the the hills overlooking Guantánamo Bay, not far from the US concentration camp for “enemy combatants” on 15 September 2010.
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Cubans going about their daily routine against the backdrop of a mural depicting the revolutionary leader Ernesto ”Che“ Guevara (1928-67) in San Jose de las Layas, on the outskirts of Havana, 22 September 2010.
