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Slow Train to Guantanamo

Slow Train to Guantanamo

Author(s): Peter Millar

Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)

Genre(s): Travelogue

Era(s): Modern

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It is an island more than 1000 kilometres long and was the sixth in the world (before its colonial master Spain) to have a national rail network. Cuba today feels like a nation at the end of a long, hard war. Peter Millar jumps aboard a railway system that was once the pride of Latin America and is now a crippled casualty case to undertake a railway odyssey the length of Cuba in the dying days of the Castro regime. Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, he travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and political opinions, to the far end of the island where he meets a more modern blot of American history, the Guantanamo naval base and detention centre.

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This book really captures the essence of this remarkable country – Youseeitnowyoudont –

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