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plorers selected the enormous bay as the main fruit, ham sandwiches, fresh orange juice and
port of their New World colonies, and why, in Cuban coffee, it was off to the races — in this case,
1592, King Philip II of Spain decreed Havana "Key the government run cigar factory. An oversized
to the New World and Rampart of the West In- portrait of a pensive Fidel Castro smoking a cigar
dies". looked down on us as we stepped across the black
The next morning, after breakfasting on Oralia’s and white linoleum tiles towards Luis, a factory
cheese omelet, piping hot ham croquetas, fresh worker-cum-guide. Like most men in the anti-
quated building, he was chewing on an unlit cigar.

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