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Cuba opens up

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Cuba opens up

Vintage ride

A car long past its heyday rolls through a suburb of Havana, Cuba.

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Cuba opens up

A history lesson

School children visit the Museum of the Revolution during a field trip In Havana.

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Cuba opens up

Room with a view

A man looks out over the Paseo del Prado in Havana.

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Cuba opens up

Older than Castro

A 90-year-old Cuban woman sits at the door to her apartment in the Habana Centro neighborhood.

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Cuba opens up

Look both ways

A Cuban woman crosses the street in the run-down working-class neighborhood of Habana Centro.

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Cuba opens up

Earthly chore

A pair of nuns shop for fruit at the Agrimercado in Havana.

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Cuba opens up

Open for business

A Cuban woman opens her stall at Feria la Caridad, one of the newly legal markets in Havana.

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Cuba opens up

457 rooms

The Hotel Nacional de Cuba sits above the Malecon in Havana. Designed by a New York firm, it opened in 1930.

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Cuba opens up

Rhythm and rum

Musicians play at El Floridita, a bar in Havana that lays claim to being the birthplace of the daiquiri.

Matt Rivera
Cuba opens up

No worries

A man watches over some parked cars in Havana. In exchange for "caring for the cars," he gets paid a few cents by each driver.

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Cuba opens up

Needing updates

A composite photo shows the kitchen and spiral stairs in the back of a woman's childhood home in Havana. Her father installed the stairs to reach the rabbit coops he kept on the roof. The kitchen was rebuilt after her family moved out, but has been neglected because of limited funds available from the government.

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Cuba opens up

A little off the top

A young man gets a haircut in Humberto's one-stall barbershop in Havana.

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