Another Cuba, A Different Fidel

Another Cuba, a Different Fidel

Ernesto Bazan has found echoes of long-ago Sicily in Cuba’s western countryside, as David Gonzalez describes.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/another-cuba-a-different-fidel/

Ernesto Bazan’s images of the Cuban countryside are remnants of a tropical dream — suffused with tenderness, color and a hint of mystery. You can almost touch the damp earth, where a freshly slaughtered pig lays near a puddle of blood, or smell the hand-rolled puros whose smoke hangs in the air like a milky veil.