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Cuba

Cuba

Train n°13 takes me from Havana to Bayamo. I cross the island from west to east - this journey lasts 23 hours.

A man like me is forbidden to be in a Cuban train. I hide myself in a wagon with animals and everything else that you can imagine. It is in this very moment that and I become a black passenger.

After the train gets under way I discover Mariam that I can bribe. She asks me some pesos and finds me a seat. This train marvels me and I discover myself behind the scenes of the past. 

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Several hours passes, and then the dusk is coming over wetlands with the marching flamingos.  Mariam take care of me and explain me how everything works in this train.

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We stop after nine hours, not at the train stop but because the locomotive is just "overheated" assures me the corrupt Mariam. We are searching for water which becomes rarer than any dollars in the world. I can see many men riding on their horses towards our train. What will happen next is something that I can't remember.

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