Design Postcard from Mexico City
Join me at the famous Café La Habana, where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are said to have plotted the Cuban Revolution over coffee and chilaquiles.
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Opened in 1852, this café was not just for revolutionaries – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (have you watched the brilliant 100 Years of Solitude on Netflix yet?) is said to have written part of his most famous novel here while Octavio Paz (poet and diplomat) and Roberto Bolaño (Chilean novelist) all hung out here. Bolaño immortalised La Habana under the name Café Quito in his 1998 novel The Savage Detectives, and Patti Smith later performed there in his honour. Such is its fame in the city that apparently Mexican politicians come here when they want …