Pretty in Pink The "private" taxis were meant to help alleviate the chronic transportation problems in Havana, where many people had to hitchhike to work, and in the countryside where entire families were forced to wait by the highway for hours for transportation from one town to another. The licenses give drivers the right to ferry fellow Cubans, but not foreigners. The taxi in the painting, waiting at the Hotel Nacional for a fare, is part of the government run fleet. |
Painting owned by Mark and Marsha Werther |