While only 100 miles away from the United States, the capital of Cuba seems further given the fraught history between the two nations. For Americans, Havana is still the forbidden fruit of the Caribbean. Once a protectorate of the United States at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, which ended four centuries of Spanish rule, Havana became the HQ of Fidel Castro’s revolución in 1959. Before the Spaniards, there were the Taíno and this is likely the origin of the word Habana which was the name of the local natives to the region as found in 1514 by Diego Veláquez. Now home to more than 2 million people, Havanans still have a difficult relationship with their government, but even with all of the past boycotts, embargoes, brain-drain, violence and sanctions their nationalized utilities survive. Three of these four covers represent the electrical and sewerage systems as well as one from the kilometer zero mark in the now dormant Capitol building. Hopefully, Democracy will return to the island nation and that latter design will be seen and cherished by all of the people.

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