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The first thing they saw entering Havana harbor was El Morro castle. Beyond it was hope, but who knew what else. They were Jews fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. About 12,000 arrived in Cuba from 1933 ...
Two hints exist in the form of the other Morro Castles in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Unlike New Orleans’ Morro Castle, those were built as military citadels, and consequently, they cast a much more ...
In their ongoing research to learn more about what happened and why, they have traveled to Cuba twice as journalists ... together the whole story of the Morro Castle. On a second trip, the ...
Morro Castle, one of Little Havana's oldest ... he was a radio personality, he had cafeterias in Cuba," Alberto Villalobos says of his father. A year later, Little Havana's favorite spot for ...
One thing Whitcraft is interested in seeing is whether they can get access to materials about the Morro Castle that they couldn’t last time — including documents at Cuba’s national archive.
Curious onlookers, fishermen and police lined the Malecon seafront boulevard under gray skies to welcome the ships as they passed the 400-year old Morro castle at the harbor's entrance.
Cuba Mia marks the reincarnation of the cooking of Mirtha Diaz, who ran the beloved Morro Castle in Midtown from 1981 to 1995. Don’t be fooled by the name. Diaz’s old place was hardly a castle ...