| Show -- or I i The Salt Lake Tribune Castro's Cuba: hison A natiors: In Paradise? Jr1L a Continued from Al hood party offices At a hamburger joint in Havana a customer who gives his name only as Juan works at eating a double burger filled with a mixture of beef soy and beef blood one of only 400 the shop served that day He says people in his neighborhood get one ticket every Other Latin American r--- 4 woril 4 4 some of the excess money still in priv3te hands pull in some taxes : : - ' and try to get private individuals to produce what the state has failed to do With everyone paid by the state but with little produced inflation is tearing at the Cuban peso now worth about 70 to the dollar although the official rate is one to one Everyone has some money but little to buy Everyone has time but little to do to fill it Havana's splendid parks and boulevards are filled with chatting adults and playing children Power cuts of more than 12 hours a day in midsummer idled cooling fans and air conditioners driving taany to sleep outdoors On weekend nights a spidery crush of bicycles tangles Havana's waterfront Malecon Boulevard not far from the US diplomatic mission as tens of thousands of young people meet to dance to music by Michael Jacksen and Juan Luis Guerra thundering from an open-ai- r discotheque set up by the government The Malecon is a tropical Times Square Cuba's pride and shame From the same promenade where thousands gather to dance a few desperate Cubans risk death each month by setting out for Florida in huge inner tubes Hundreds gather with friends and bottles of homemade liquor on the Malecon wall to while away the balmy nights as the surf hisses through the rocks below Tourists who wander down the sidewalk also hear a chorus of hissing from young hookers or scam artists seeking dollars Dollars are legal now for the first time since the early days of Castro's 1959 revolution Cuba's government hopes to lure desperately needed foreign currency from exiles abroad to save the revolution But so far there has been little y rush to the stores previously limited largely to tourists Officials boosted prices there by 50 percent a week before legalizing dollars The government is free with gloomy statistics: Cuba will import only about $17 billion this year down from about $81 billion in 1989 Oil imports have fallen below 6 million metric tons from more than 13 million This year's sugar harvest Cuba's main source of income is the worst in 30 years The collapse of the Soviet Union and its European allies has stripped Cuba of about 80 percent of its trade On the outskirts of Havana well-stock- two weeks "If you live in an area with a SOURCE Tuba Met Commune by Elam Canino: and Aal Whoop) Knight-Ridd- pregnant women at 140 pesos Others with a hunger for meat apparently have to turn to the black market where a d chicken can cost 140 pesos An average month's wage is a little more than 200 pesos Some hamburger stands and gun-sig- now-defun- ht war" ZIONS A 4 l'Agantic t Ocean too EWE Mites Havana con s rezL1t Bicycles I ' - - k:- Canbbean Sea carat - I Guantanamo ':' - i Santago de Cuba islasds us Katti Jamaica Size: Slightly smaller than Life expectancy: 78 years for women 73 years for men Pennsylvania Capital: Havana ct Literacy: 94 percent Religion: 85 percent nominally Roman Catholic before Fidel Castro assumed power Government: Communist state Population: 107 million black 62 percent white 37 percent Chinese 1 percent Infant mortality rate: 12 deaths per 1000 live births President: Fidel Castro Includes Cubans designated as mulattoes Knight-Ridd- isAlComers I Winners 1 1993 'N up 'N COMERS AWARDS - (kitt notinkg771 7 I N-4- i! half-finish- to P it sprawling concrete buildings countryside ° foreign-currenc- stand empty or for lack of power or parts some with construction cranes rusting above them Dump trucks rumble along country roads brimming with passengers in their cargo beds They stop at bus stops where people by the score wait carrying bags filled with fruits vegetables and meats bought in the countryside or with scarce goods like toilet paper and soap they are carry- ing i 4 It) a Bahamas Matanzas I N A CONGRATULATES THE BANK 1993 ni A N er It "A friend gave it to me Profile of Cuba Batista regime Castro overthrew in 1959 "Mien I was a boy" he says "1 dreamed of playing baseball wanted to be Mickey Mantle Yogi Berra Stan Musial" A center-fieldhe says he had been scouted by the Washington Senators Came the revolution "and 1 had a machine gun in my hands" as a member of the militia "There are many who think that Cuba is a paradise That's an error" he says "But things are much better than under capitalI believe capitalism will ism never return here" 1961 was a trophy of A19 1993 itants persecuted under the hand-carve- two-poun- 3 ld hamburger restauraat it's hamburger If they have pizza it's pizza If there's no restaurant you commit suicide" he quips on an eastern fringe of Havana Roberto Molina demonstrates the Ingenuity some Cubans have shown in the face of bard times He displays small wooden toys that he makes — a legal sideline that brings him about four times the average wage Standing before a framed photograph showing him with Castro d Molina holds up a pellet rifle that features a salvaged from the USsponsored Bay of Pigs invasion in Eastern European countries: 16 Sunday October Molina has modified his Chinese Flying Pigeon bicycle into something resembling a Harley Davidson with bits and pieces cast by hand or borrowed from machines as exotic as a MIG fighter plane He instaned 10 speeds of gears a speedometer three headlights and a radio driven by an old Soviet battery The walls bear framed medals from military service in Ethiopia Moand Angola The lina remains an ardent Communist the son of Communist mil- pizza shops still operate by reservation only Tickets are doled out at workplaces or by neighbor- Cuba's trade partners Percentages d ttal export Canada: 2 WORLD Up 'n Comers is a statewa pmgram that recognizes the career achievements and community involvement of Utah's young professional" Zions Bank would like to commend this year:5 wbmers and sincerely thank the advisory hoard nominating committee jury nominators Karl Malone and the attendees for their on-goi- ng support of this project I s the exchange in I are pressed into sersome- vice as cargo vehicles and times squealing trussed pigs can be seen ferried on the backs of bikes The hotel hustlers and begging child an largely disappear beyond the tourist zones In the lush countryside work is harder but the food is better with meat or fish served nearly every day to farm workers Some have abandoned the city "When I came it seemed very hard But now I'm used to it" says 0 farrnor kindørjosevra cook garten helping a sweating crew load bananas south of Havana "You learn the value of things" In the country she says Prices seem fantastic Neighborhood ration shops offer a month's worth of rice and beans for pennies The blackboard in front of one advises that five eggs per person are available every 15 days that chicken is on sale for Architecture Engineering Jo Ann Marna Lighty Construction Manufacturing Miduel T Young High Technology George A (Troy) Taltadl Jr (University of Utah) (Young Electric Sign Co) (Parvus Corporation) I 4 I Arts & Leisure Terry Tempest Wi :Urns Ed uc at on Law Charles Joseph Shackett Lisa Hurtado Armstrong (Author) (Highland High School) (Dept of CommerceUtah) n"usnless is Phi:2p Adams Finance Scott W Pickett (Flying J hic) (Coopers & Lybrand) DPntal I lieJsith Servrpc Letitia Archuleta MD 't (Holy Cross Hospital) t Government Communications Daid J Spatafore D'Arcy Dixon Pig lanai (Spatafore &Associates) (Utah Hospital Association) Non-prol- it Debra Ann Hair (ita !'dependent Living Center) 6 s - 0) ‘11 1111 A 't ell Vit Loot° ti 1 101 0 - v Mono lot rily mason Low ittereW itS Low - OV PT°11n1 - ZIONS BANK KNEARRIt4170V TIE UNTLEVAINE PROGRAM mot)thl repent youral'Pv'eagood rth FOR - Member FDIC CALL NOW! 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