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Hmm, my point wasn't so much that it's all ok because it's a kind of amusement part for tourists, just that it's not necessarily some totally apalling place with only bad associations because it's undemocratic and poor. The person who wants to use it as a name presumably was struck positively by the city.
When I think about Havana I think about a place with a history, a place in literature and interesting shoreline architecture, as well as thinking of the economic and political problems it has. If all places that are poor and undemocratic are unreedemably horrid, then a whole lot of the world is unreedembly horrid, including quite a few places we generally consider beautiful and interesting.