Cuban workers prepare to remove statue with crane due to approaching Hurricane Ivan.
Cuban workers prepare to remove a statue with a crane as Hurricane Ivan approaches the island, in Havana, September 11, 2004. Ivan was upgraded to a rare, top intensity Category 5 hurricane with winds of 165 mph as it blasted past Jamaica on Saturday afternoon. Cuba began evacuating hundreds of thousands of people in the western half of the island. REUTERS/Claudia Daut CD