"For me, I'm very happy he's coming, " said Juana DeArmas, a shopkeeper in the capital's Old Havana neighborhood.

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Juana Medina lives in Washington, but grew up in war-torn Colombia.

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"It doesn't stop, it just doesn't stop, " said Juana Joynes, a 44-year-old who grew up in Forest Houses, the public housing complex where Lloyd was shot to death.

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Yet even women like Sister Juana, who kept a library in her cell and whose heavy-browed stare still challenges the world to explain itself, were subject to male spiritual advisers.

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These stories were repeated time and again from people like Juana Rodriguez, who has a high-interest subprime loan, and Juan Carlos Jacobo, whose home is about to be sold off to the bank.

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