Transportation

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Transportation in Cuba

Photos from 1998

With the "Special Situation", the US trade embargo, and the end of the Soviet Union's subsidy, creative ways of providing island transportation have had to be devised.

 

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"The Camel"

 

because of an acute shortage of buses, trucks are fitted with these passenger carriers, called Camels

 

 

 

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Bikes and Motorcycles

 

bike with side car

 

repair shop

 

family vehicle

 

flower market

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Automobiles

 

 

a collection of old American (pre-revolution) cars

 

some imports from Europe

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horse taxixi

 

horse taxi and bikes

 

the truck carrier to take people to work

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the rural scene

 

on horseback

 

riders and workers

 

material moved by pack train

 

discussing the project

 

the water donkey

 

 

with oxen

 

or the Russian truck

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from Pre-Revolutionary times

 

 

 

the railroad

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