The lightning and thunder of a huge explosion ripped through the still darkness, shattering windows, knocking doors off hinges, sending the panicked people of Havana streaming down toward the waterfront.
Tiny ferries chug past, as they did then.
Rusting old freighters ride at anchor. The United States was behind the explosion,'' she insists. The mystery of the Maine, spark to the Spanish-American War, reaches back to the 19th century. But on this 100th anniversary it's clear it will feed mistrust between nations well into the 21st. But trying to block it would have been dangerously provocative.