1.   Jeri and I got back in the car and drove south, past shrimp stands and abandoned old sugar mills.

2.   One restaurants is by the shore, another on top of a hill in an old sugar mill.

3.   Asked why, he pointed in the direction of the San Miguelito sugar mill.

4.   After being privatized, it bought companies that produced locomotives, heavy trucks and sugar mills, and built a factory to make aluminum cans.

5.   But the sugar mills are in poor condition.

6.   Cuba has already talked with foreign companies regarding investment in the sugar mills, although no agreements have been reached, Lage said.

7.   His mother scraped together a life for her three sons and two daughters by working in the cafeteria at the local sugar mill.

8.   Hurricane Lilly damaged hundreds of acres of sugar cane and several sugar mills when it passed through the island last autumn.

9.   Indian production is suffering from bad relations between cane growers and sugar mills because of delays in payments by the mills to the farmers.

10.   It is as bitter as the raw smell wafting from the sugar mills.