For all the changes on Havana's face,
                however-- the television shows, the
                long-haired rockers, hip-hop clubs,
                jineteras, meat and bicycles-- the
                decline of the salutation "campañero," 
                or comrade, may say the most about 
                Cuba in the 1990s. Once the 
                very symbol of revolutionary 
                solidarity, the term has fallen
                out of use lately.
                              

                                
                

            


               
                These days, you hear "campañero" 
                only from revolutionary tourists
                and government officials. Castro
                addressed Cubans as "campaneros"
                when he went on national television
                in the summer of 1994 to appeal for
                calm after rioting on the Havana
                waterfront -- and then he apologized
                for interrupting "Te Odio Mi Amor."