With a red sack on his shoulder, a Santa Claus gives candies to the little ones while he walks the streets of Havana, a city where parents are struggling to gift toys to their children this Christmas. "Either I buy him the toys or the shoes or the clothes or the food, and better is the clothes and the food than the toys," says Lin Vania Alonso, a 49-year-old grandmother. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES