You can visit Cuba without going there. Visitors to the 12th annual Cuba Nostalgia Fair in Miami next weekend will find Cuban art, music, food and shopping.
An expected 300,000 visitors are expected at the Miami-Dade County Fair Expo Center.
Cuba’s capital, Havana, has long been known as the “forbidden city” because of the long-standing US ban on travel there.
The Miami fair’s gathering of the Cuban-exile community can take on a bittersweet air, however, evoking both celebration and loss, said The New York Times.
The focus of Cuba Nostalgia, as its name implies, is exclusively on the country’s pre-Castro era: Its promoters promise “a journey back in time for those who remember the island’s glamorous times — and for those who never experienced them.”
Visitors may linger over a giant aerial photo of 1953 Havana or look at a replica of the iconic Malecon, the sea wall that runs around Havana’s waterfront.
So there’s lots of shopping but don’t expect to find any Che Guevara T-shirts.
By David Wilkening
