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YanquiBoy
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As Hurricane Irma flooded the working-class neighborhoods behind Havana's seaside Malecon, a photographer for the Cuban Communist Party newspaper watched two men pulling broken furniture out of the calf-high water.

Nearby four others sat on plastic chairs playing dominoes in the filthy water, which reached halfway up their legs to a makeshift wooden table balanced on their knees. Juvenal Balan snapped a photo and posted it online with a comment declaring it "incredible" that the four were playing while "others work together to mitigate the damage."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pic-cubans-dominoes-irma-floodwaters-sparks-debate-49875214

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candydita
candydita

Malo tiempo, bueno cara!

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beardouk
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Elsewhere on AP, there is the comment - "Neighbors were helping each other out, and those who got tired would sit down and play dominoes."

Fidel Castro :
"Christ chose the fishermen, because he was a communist,"
"When we fulfill our promise of good government I will cut my beard."
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bobmichaels
bobmichaels

A photographer has the ability to make just about anything look very good or very bad. Sometimes you can make a photo that leaves it up to the viewers interpretation. This was certainly was one of those.

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YanquiBoy
YanquiBoy

Actually he was the communist party photographer none to happy that those guys were trying to cope.

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beardouk
beardouk

And yet the text in that photo includes - "Eddy Dennis, a grey-haired 51-year-old parking attendant pulling furniture, said the scene was one of neighborly cooperation and mutual effort in the face of the city’s worst flooding in years, if not decades. “It was something communal that all the neighbors were doing in the spirit of unity,” Dennis said. “Those who got tired would sit down and play dominoes. We had spent the whole night on our feet and it was a way to destress in the face of disaster.” "

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"When we fulfill our promise of good government I will cut my beard."
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greslogo
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The photo in that article, apparently, was shot a few years ago..

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beardouk
beardouk

Apparently according to whom ?

AP certainly seem to think that it is recent.

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greslogo
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Don't recall the reference, more chisme....jeje

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