Halloween in Cuba
Halloween is beginning to take off in a surprising destination: Cuba.
- Youth in costumes attend a Halloween party at a home in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. The costumes ranged from expensive imported rented outfits to handmade costumes cobbled together from items found around the house. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
- Marilyn Alvarez puts makeup on her daughter’s friend as they prepare for a Halloween party in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Cubans are immersed in U.S. popular culture and, increasingly, U.S. products brought by expatriates visiting family on the island. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
- Youth gather for a Halloween party in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. The costume party was held in the ground-floor apartment of a Soviet-era housing project in Cuba’s capital. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
- A young man in costume arrives for a Halloween party at a residence in Havana, Cuba, late Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Inspired by pirated U.S. movies and television shows, young Cubans are turning American-style Halloween parties into the island’s latest trend. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
- Devil costumed Luis Ramos photographs his girlfriend Alannis Rodriguez, sporting a she-devil costume, holding her pug dressed as a baby at a Halloween party in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Trick-or-treating hasn’t taken root, but across Cuba this weekend elementary, high school and college students were dressing up, dancing and enjoying a festivity that few knew as children. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
- A young man dressed as Batman waits atop a Vespa scooter, stored in the living room of a home at the start of a Halloween party in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Marta Perez, left, will be supervising the teen party, which her son is attending. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
- Youth in costume dance at a Halloween party at a residence in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. The rising popularity of Halloween is one of many manifestations of the decades-long intermingling of Cuban and U.S. culture despite the half-century of hostility between the two countries’ governments. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
- Marilyn Alvarez lights jack-o-lanterns during a Halloween party at a residence in Havana, Cuba, late Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Inspired by pirated U.S. movies and television shows, young Cubans are turning American-style Halloween parties into the island’s latest trend. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)