HAVANA,May 20 (www.cubanet.org) – Cuban authorities have implemented strict security measures at the embarkation points for the small ferries crossing Havana bay.Now, before boarding, all passengers must go through a metal detector. Newly posted signs warn passengers they cant carry furniture or birthday cakes
You know how it is on a stormy night when you take the ferry across Havana Bay and you smell the fear of the passengers as the waves call you to your death and the drunken ferry captain almost falls overboard three times before the rope to the harbour wall has been cast off.
The captain is drunk again, I said to my brother Ramon.
Not on his salary, Ramon said, He is dizzy with the danger.
Yes that is how it is , I said. But this danger that makes him dizzy does not affect us.
It is not that kind of danger, Ramon said.
And so we stood on the deck in the rain, all 65 of us, as the small ferry made its way across the bay.
After a few minutes, Ramon spoke again: It is the other kind of danger, like when a young chiquita comes down from the hills and sees the city for the first time. And she brings with her the smell of...
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