Remedios is one of Ann Arbor's sister cities.

News clippings

• US-Cuba Sister Cities Association, on the 2003 decision to make Remedios a sister city:

Good work, and part of a public groundswell 'blowback' for this administration's efforts to close down Cuba to U.S. residents. As we move into the 2004 election cycle, we anticipate many more people concerned about the alarming deterioration in U.S.-Cuba relations will look to form sister cities to make a positive contribution to reverse this unacceptable policy.

• Sweet ride: Old locomotive No. 1549 used to toil at a Cuban sugar mill, now it's a blast from the past for tourists, Toronto Star, Feb 2008

REMEDIOS, CUBA–Kids just love playing with trains ... especially when the `kids' are all grown up and the train is blast from the past. So we were already pretty eager to climb aboard vintage steamer No. 1549, wheezing on the siding near the old Marcelo Salado sugar mill for the short trip to Remedios,