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Weekly Report - 23 April 2015 (WR-15-16)
CUBA: Cuomo falls for Cuban beauty
The governor of New York state, Andrew M. Cuomo, became the first US governor to visit Cuba since ‘D-day’. Cuomo seemed genuinely thrilled to be in Havana, and was particularly taken with one local beauty, ‘Lola’, a gleaming restored 1956 pink Chevrolet Bel Air, for lack of original parts now running with a Toyota diesel engine. “I had to come to Cuba to see this,” the self-professed vintage car obsessive enthused over the hood, suggesting to the owner that the restoration of relations between the US and Cuba might allow Lola’s eventual restoration to her full former glory, by way of a rebuilt Chevy engine from the US.
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