The cash crunch Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

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1. Pat Patterson says

   June 1, 2009 at 7:25 pm

   I think this is the same bar, as shown above, in the 1959 movie Our Man in Havana. Looking a little worse for the wear some 20 years later. The bar scene is at around 7:20 into the video.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upc9FVdIXqs

   My dad was a midshipman in 1938 and his summer cruise consisted of a hammock in the USS Minnesota as part of a small flotilla that visited most of the major ports in the Caribbean. He told me years later that Cuba looked just like San Diego and was clean and exciting. By 1991 when I went to Havana for the Pan American Games it was dirty, dreary and looked just like East Berlin but with a much better climate.