Watching a tieless Brian Williams anchor the NBC Nightly News from Havana's malecon the other night made me think of an earlier journalistic delegation to the city.
Back in the '90s, the top management of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel traveled to Cuba for talks about opening a bureau in the capital. They took along with them a feature writer, Enrique Fernandez, who was Cuban-American.
After arrival at their hotel, the Nacional I believe, they went to their respective rooms to change. Rejoining the group in the lobby, Enrique - in casual business attire befitting the capital of a major country - found his colleagues in shorts and leisure shirts.
