Cuba's Railways are TOTALLY CRAZY!
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The narrator's cheerful demeanor is totally at odds with his environment. 10 hours to get a ticket and then 10 hours to make 5 hour trip?!? Google Maps says you should be able to drive it in three and a half hours. As if. This is Cuba after all.
Note that the pretty 1950's era automobiles shown early on are basically jalopies that are only still running due to the ingenuity and diligence of the Cuban equivalent of redneck engineering. That $10 bribe is likely the equivalent of a month's wages in Cuba.
Cuba runs on crime. People can't survive without it. Everyone has to give a cut of whatever they get to 'the beard' as Castro was known.
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| Havana to Santa Clara |
Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean that has an extensive railroad. The Dominican Republic has some rail lines that serve the sugar mills and Puerto Rico has 10 miles of transit lines in San Juan, but that's about it.
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Note on temperatures at the train station:
- 35 degrees C = 95 degrees F
- 45 degrees C = 113 degrees F
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