Cuba - Why Are They Leaving?
(...all images were acquired in or around Cuba)
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Escape Vessel 1
This was once the most modern vehicle on the island before it became a watercraft...

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Custom numbering...
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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Bullet holes or hoistway access key holes?
You can not go down from here...no down button!
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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Passenger car with no enclosure ceiling...
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Escape Vessel 2
Not much of a deck area...

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Stuck between floors...as well as in the middle of the twentieth century!
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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Looks like a mod job is in progress, however...
this is what is being installed not removed!
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A coat of paint should take care of this...
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Escape Vessel 3
Enjoying the sunshine and their new found freedom...

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A combination "construction hoist" and trash shoot...
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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Former Bacardi headquarters...
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Another "construction hoist"....
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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Escape Vessel 4
Who's going to fix the elevators now that they've taken the truck?

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A little bit better...
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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No landing gates, hard hats, safety shoes, or freedom...
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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First Communist country to install a toilet in an elevator...
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Escape Vessel 5
Happy as hell...

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A hoistway or...a prison cell?
Both!
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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Actually I like this image...I wonder if it was really taken in Cuba?
Of course, Che and Fidel never lie!
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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A hand powered dumbwaiter...
Image provided by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna & Fidel Castro
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Escape Vessel 6
They made it!
It looks like something out of the movie 'Waterworld'...doesn't it?

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Perhaps we could send that "boat" back...with him on it!
Image provided by: Graeme MacKay
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