General Overview

After the resign of Santiago and Quito for the 1987 games, the PASO received bids from Indianapolis (USA) and Havana (Cuba) to host these games. The north american bid would eventually win the race, angering Fidel Castro, menacing to boycott the games. The PASO finally decided to offer Havana the 1991 games only if they decided to participate on Indianapolis. So, the Cuban delegation went and the games were awarded for the second time to a caribbean country.

The Berlin Wall fall down in 1989, as well for the Soviet Union, making their economical help to Cuba to stop, making Cuba to suffer a great crisis. Fidel Castro was forced to made a collective movilization of people in order to finish the works on time, specially the Pan American Village (even the cuban champion Javier Sotomayor had to return to Cuba from his trainings, to help xD). The result: There were no complains of the guests about the facilites. The effort was also increased on the athletes preparation, which means that Cuba, for the first time in history, would beat USA and reached the first place, with 140 golden and a total number of 265 medals.  This only happened at the first games in 1951.

The United States made their base in Florida, with daily flights (with a duration of 45 minutes) to Cuba. The athletes, after finishing their competitions, eated and returned to Tampa. The allegated motive was that the Village had not conditioner air, or ''trustable'' food. It was the Gulf War time and the richest country on the world begun to change of adversary, changing the communists for the arab world, specially Saddam Hussen & Irak

The mascot of these games was Tocopan, a mix of the words Panamerican and Tocororo, the national bird of Cuba. Robson Caetano won the 100m athletic race, with 10s32, being the first time that a brazilian athlete won the gold in the most hard athletic competition.

The Opening Ceremonies

The Competitions

The Closing Ceremonies

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Curious facts of the Games

Final Medal Table