In pictures: Cuban stories

Sebastian Urra never went to school, unlike his grandson. He toiled with his father making charcoal.

"There were no doctors, no schools, no electricity...The revolution changed my life completely."

Today Sebastian is a transport worker and rents rooms to tourists. But he has to pay $540 a month in tax, guests or not.

He thinks the government should promote tourism in the Zapata Peninsula, scene of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles.