An oppressive Catholic Church looms over the main street, which is bustling with traders in fruit, phone cards and sweets.
Indeed, money prolongs the war: rumours abound of arms sales by Russians, not least to rebels, and both sides profit from smuggling and kidnapping.Although the obliterated centre of Grozny bustles with traders in daylight, it is deserted at night.
In the streets of Old Havana there was the usual bustle of traders, taxis, and tourists, but conversation focused on one subject alone, and TVs and radios were turned up to full volume as clips of Castro's speech were played and replayed.
Elegant women swish through the bustling market and traders sit surrounded by plump sacks of produce.
The village of Rendang sits just outside the exclusion zone, and normally the market place would be bustling with the traders selling fruit, flowers and rice.
In Nairobi's bustling Gikomba market, a trader can make 1,000 Kenyan shillings (about $10) a day selling secondhand clothes, a decent living.
ILLEGAL money-traders bustle on the streets of Myanmar, one of Asia's poorest and most authoritarian countries.
TO JOURNEY FROM the bustle of street-traders, minibus taxis, heat and dust of an African city centre to one of the pulsing arteries of global finance, all you need to do is walk a few steps, from the pavement to the towering coolness of the Johannesburg head office of Standard Bank, Africa's biggest bank.
Traders who once bustled to-and-fro now stay at home.
