It sounds perverse, but in the shadow of the US embargo, Cuba is building a gigantic port and free trade zone... Vanessa Baird looks into the issue.
The tatty windswept coastal town of Mariel looks too mundane and inconsequential to bear the weight of its history – let alone its future.
This is where US gangster Lucky Luciano was hoping to build a casino until his plans were spoiled by the 1959 revolution.
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