Working out in an improvised gym in Havana

AP moved these three photographs from Havana today by photographer, Javier Galeano.

Nike's 'Just Do It' slogan came to mind when I saw them.

Javier Galeano / AP

A teenager lifts weights in an improvised gym in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Jan.13, 2011

Javier Galeano / AP

Two teenagers exercise in an improvised gym in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Jan.13, 2011.

Javier Galeano / AP

A teenager exercises in an improvised gym in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Jan.13, 2011.

 

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 They want to exercise, but I see a lot of work that needs to be done. They should exercise by cleaning up their environment and putting some stucco on those building to make them look better.

    Reply#1 - Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:00 AM EST

    They could well do that but then the Communist Government would see what they had done and commandeer the site for their own purposes, I think that we sometimes suffer a lack of reallity in our FREE world. 6 million Jews were killed in WW2 to have their places taken by Radicals that has now spread globally. Why would these boys improve something that they would never get to appreciate if it were not the way it is right now. It is indeed a very weird world in which we live. We are the only species on earth that predate our own kind. Not even ANIMALS do that. Noel.

      Reply#2 - Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:34 AM EST

      Stucco? You are assuming that the average Cuban has access to construction materials. In a free country you usually do but in a communist one you are usually focussed on using the small amounts of money that you earn to feed yourself and your family. Most Americans think that everyone in the world has the same opportunities we do. Unfortunately that is not the case.

        Reply#3 - Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:44 AM EST
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