Photo Feature by Idania Cardenas
HAVANA TIMES – The Havana shopping center Galerias de Paseo is located facing the Havana malecon and very close to the Melia Cohiba Hotel. Today it is completely in ruins, dirty, destroyed, with peeling paint, and without lighting at the entrance. Most people head to the dollarized state market (MLC) on the first floor. Walking through its aisles is a real challenge because you don’t know if it’s a market or a warehouse. All the store aisles are filled with merchandise that accumulates up to the entrance of the market itself.
For those who don’t want to climb the access ramp,