He started at a city job building neighborhood projects such as community centers for the poor in Little Havana.

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Think of the Cuban sandwich today and it is Miami, with its Little Havana neighbourhood and prominent Cuban community, that springs to mind.

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When she greets me, she admits to feeling harried because she's selling the pharmacy she's run for years in Little Havana to a major national chain.

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Further south, there are more cultural nuclei in Little Havana, where nostalgia-chic clubs and galleries such as Hoy Como Ayer and Cuba Ocho vibrate with rhythms from new and old exiles.

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Some of the older exiles, such as Carlos Trueba, a Cuban-born retiree playing dominoes in an outdoor park in Miami's Little Havana, object to the lack of ideological spine among the new arrivals.

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Courting the Puerto Rican vote in Orlando is now an essential part of any Florida campaign itinerary, as vital as throwing back a shot of sugar-packed coffee in front of reporters at Versailles Restaurant in Miami's Little Havana.

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Lazaro Gonzalez is Elian's great uncle and had taken care of the boy at his Little Havana home in Miami from his rescue at sea last Thanksgiving day until INS agents removed him from the house in a Saturday morning raid April 22.

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At the same time, the house opposite his relatives in Little Havana shows a huge picture of the child in the sea, grasping an inner tube, surrounded by porpoises protecting him from the terrors of the deep, with the Virgin Mary behind him and the hand of God stretching down in protection.

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"A little more than two and a half years, " replied Eusebio Leal, Havana's historian and member of the assembly.

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