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A collection of goodies found around the web.
A collection of goodies found around the web.
First comes the stink of diesel, then a metallic roar, and finally a tower of black smoke that tells you the “camello” — the camel — has reached
your stop.
These hulking 18-wheeled beasts, iron mutants made of two Soviet-era buses welded together on a flatbed and pulled by a separate cab, have long been
Havana’s public transport nightmare — bumpy, hot and jammed with up to 400 passengers at a time.
But their gradual disappearance is a telling sign of change in the twilight of the Fidel Castro age. The last “camello” is expected to go out of service in Havana on Sunday night.