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Robert Dominguez

Scraping to survive: Cubans forced to defy government to eke out existence

HAVANA _ This is definitely not what Fidel pictured.

Sixty years after Castro overthrew Cuba's notoriously corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista, one of the world's last remaining Communist strongholds has become a hotbed of capitalism.

In Havana, where crumbling Colonial-era buildings stand in near-ruin alongside shiny new hotels and restaurants owned by private citizens _ and where American cars from the 1950s are now tourist taxis that use the Plaza de la Revolucion as a parking lot _ long-suffering Cubans have been forced to become crafty capitalists in order to survive under the Socialist state's eternally ineffective economy.

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