Havana's Disenchanted Youth: HAVANA-CUBA-YOUTH-EMBARGO_24

Regla, Havana Arianna Gusmán Peña, 19, applies make-up in the bedroom of the house she shares with her mother in Havana's Regla municipality. Next to the mirror stands a Santeria shrine, called bóveda espiritual, with water-filled glasses to honor the dead as spirits who guide the living. Santeria is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that grew out of the slave trade in which the African beliefs were merged with Roman Catholic elements imposed by the Spanish.

Regla, Havana Arianna Gusmán Peña, 19, applies make-up in the bedroom of the house she shares with her mother in Havana's Regla municipality. Next to the mirror stands a Santeria shrine, called bóveda espiritual, with water-filled glasses to honor the dead as spirits who guide the living. Santeria is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that grew out of the slave trade in which the African beliefs were merged with Roman Catholic elements imposed by the Spanish.