#trinidad
The weekend is here!
Maybe wet in some places - like here 🎯 NYC is set for a 'monsoon'-like Saturday morning, like a few weeks ago.
Thinking of deluges, one of the more memorable for me was on Plaza Mayor, in Trinidad, Cuba. (#myphoto)
Plaza Mayor is an historical treasure (from Colonial days), and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
But outside the tourist attractions, life, as most places on the island, is far less luxurious.
Here is a back-street in Trinidad, not far from the plaza, where water flowed rapidly down the cobblestone, into a nether-land.
Once living comfortably on #GooglePlus (collection), there is a good-sized collection of images - and a few videos - from Cuba, from Havana to countryside, music, and Hemingway's home in between, (Still more to post, actually) But thinking of wet days now, and...
Photography of Cuba
Good weekend! Stay home, New Yorkers, A great Saturday to sleep in, hopefully on a high floor. :))
#Fenfotos #Cuba #photography #Trinidad #Cuba #Cienfuegos #Kuba #rain #PlazaMayor #UNESCO
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It was early 2016, and I had gone to #Trinidad to report on Trinidadian #ISIS foreign fighters for The Atlantic. Between 2013 and 2016, some 240 Trinis travelled to #Syria and Iraq to join the caliphate, making Trinidad one of the world’s biggest exporters, per capita, of ISIS foreign fighters. I wanted to know how a country famed for #calypso, rum and carnival could incubate something so profoundly unTrinidadian.
https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-jihadists-of-the-caribbean/ #is #islamism #war #corruption #religion #violence #iraq
