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They gather for socializing while waiting for their customers ...they are the eyes, ears
- and the communication to the outside world. Many university professionals such as teachers, doctors and others have chosen this occupation to hope to get ahead in life. One of the few occupations allowed to be a business, although taxed very heavily.

Cardenas, Cuba ~ such friendly and open people

Real Street, Cardenas, Cuba - what was once a business, now a humble home

Cardenenses" and their ancestors built a small village on Cárdenas Bay into a prosperous and progressive city. <br />
The city has suffered mercilessly during the Castro years. Not many can afford a vehicle.<br />
The Avenues once teeming with commercial activity and automobiles have become silent, giving the city an erie quiet appearance except for the passing of occasional bicycles or horse-drawn carts, and more recently, the advent of the taxi.