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Worn Out
Exhausted, Sylvia Saldeba rests after sweeping
her home and hanging laundry. She lives
with her infant son, Ken, in the one-room
apartment behind her in the oldest part
of Havana. "In Cuba, there is a legal charge
called preventative delinquency" reports
journalist Ellen Hampton. "Not being a good
citizen, not having the right attitude. Before
it gets to that, a citizen could lose privileges:
ration books for food, membership in
community organizations, a job. If hunger
doesn't slap a person back into Marxist shape,
a jail sentence might." Most Cubans work hard
to avoid that possibility.
Photographed for The Palm Beach Post