The iconic Comodoro hotel nightclub, which became the most fashionable and busiest place for nightlife during Havana in the 90s, is now completely abandoned.
Through a report from the independent media CubaNetthe images of what just a few decades ago was a place of splendor, have had a great impact on Cubans, since now it is nothing more than a public dump.
Located in the municipality of Playa, in Havana, the nightclub no longer has a marble tile floor, the walls are gray and crumbling, with the windows without glass and the hanging remains of what were once the frames.
At the time, the Havana Club offered three drink areas: the central bar, the snack bar and the Cascada bar counter. Although it closed for a time in 1998 during the so-called “Operation Lacra”, a vague attempt to stop prostitution and drug consumption, it reopened in the mid-2000s.
From there it continued to be one of the main nightclubs in the capital and the Island, with drinks and fun at relatively affordable prices, despite the fact that today it is located in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Havana.
After its definitive closure in 2018, the regime announced that the building would be restored and reopened, but it turned out to be one more of the projects that remains half done, without any effort for its conservation.
The memories that many of the citizens maintain of this place are what make it particularly difficult to process the advanced state of deterioration in which it is located, and the garbage dump that it has become.
The Havana Club, which at its peak had capacity for 800 people, has become the sad representation of what has happened to all of Cuba under the government of the Castro dictatorship: a place that was once a tropical paradise, now it is worn out, in ruins, in complete abandonment despite its potential, withering into oblivion.
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