VARADERO BEACH, Cuba, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Cuba's Varadero peninsula is a postcard of a tropical paradise: turquoise waters, powder-white sand and palm trees. But the resort's beaches, once crowded with ...
The Cuban people are a long-suffering lot. Since Christopher Columbus and his fleet first landed there in 1492, life has gone badly. Within about fifty years, the Spaniards had exterminated the entire ...