The camello, which mean camel, has been the main form of public transportation in Havana since the early 1990s. But tonight the Havana fleet will be replace by 3,000 modern "Yutong" brand buses. The currently used camello is an enormous vehicle composed of two regular buses welded together on a flatbed, holding as many as 400 people packed together. They are pretty hot, smelly, and dirty, though charging very cheap fare (20 centavos < 1 US cent). This change to new buses is just one of several new initiatives of Raul Castro; sort of superficial, but a nice change.
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