US aid flows in to Cuba to preserve Ernest Hemingway's estate

Shipping containers full of tools arrive to help build facility to house US novelist’s photos and letters

The new era of US-Cuban normalization has brought hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of supplies into the country to build a conservation facility for Ernest Hemingway artefacts ranging from books and letters to fishing rods and African animal heads.

Two shipping containers packed with US-bought tools and hardware – from electric fuse boxes to hurricane-proof windows – were opened outside the novelist’s Havana estate on Wednesday to allow work to begin.

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