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Letter from Cuba: The tourists are coming – but don’t expect Walmart just yet

Plus: An ambassador’s perspective; and Fidel Castro’s rule on a plate

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

Sloppy Joe’s — which starred in the film of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana — was always likely to wither on the post-revolution vine. As the decadent hangout of unsavoury ‘imperialists’ whom Fidel Castro despised, it never stood much of a chance. Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and local hero Ernest Hemingway all used to call in from time to time, slaking their thirst at the 65ft-long mahogany bar.

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Mark Palmer is the travel editor of the Daily Mail.

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