The Guardian -
14 Apr 2015 07:00
In the 1960s, Fidel Castro created Coppelia - a state-run ice'cream parlour that came to embody Cuba's revolutionary ideals. As relations with the US begin to thaw, can it survive? There is a black-and-white photograph of Fidel Castro that was taken during his whirlwind April 1959 trip to New York, just three months after his rebel forces ousted Fulgencio Batista, a US-backed dictator who had turned Havana into a playground for the mafia. Dressed in his trademark military fatigues, Castro is sur...
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