Avenida de los Presidentes
Tree-lined avenue of grand presidential monuments, one reduced to a lone pair of bronze shoes on its pedestal.
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This guide walks the Avenida de los Presidentes in Havana between two toppled leaders. It opens with a pair of bronze shoes, all that remains of Tomas Estrada Palma's statue after a January 1959 crowd tore him down for leasing out Guantanamo Bay and calling in American troops. Further along stands Jose Miguel Gomez, Cuba's second president, cast in bronze in 1936, whose own government ordered a 1912 crackdown on the Partido Independiente de Color, a movement of Afro-Cuban veterans demanding equal rights. Look for the two men roughly a few hundred meters apart along the same tree-lined avenue.
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