Cuba’s crumbling beauty is, oddly, part of its appeal
<p><runtime:topic id=”PECLB00015140”>Alice Short</runtime:topic>, assistant managing editor for the Los Angeles Times and first-time visitor to Cuba, and veteran travel writer Catherine Watson, who just returned from her fifth visit to Cuba, compare
Cuba confounds. The decay of the buildings belies their comeliness, suggesting an impoverished land with all its attendant problems, but not so Cuba.
“I don’t know if I could ever get over it,” Alice Short, an assistant managing editor for the Los Angeles Times, says of her first visit to the island nation. “There’s so much beauty and so much destruction.”
Short and veteran travel writer Catherine Watson, who recently returned from her fifth trip, discuss what they saw -- and why the island nation is the way it is -- in a series of videos plus articles that will appear online Saturday and in the print Travel section on Sunday.
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