A few days ago, I was looking through some papers and found this article from 2006. It appeared in The LA Times entitled “From the Ground Up, Cuba Is Crumbling“:
“Cuba is falling apart — literally.Even as its economy booms thanks to a thriving tourism industry, brisk nickel exports and cheap oil from ideologically aligned Venezuela, the social benefits are difficult to see at street level.Except for a few high-profile historical restoration projects such as the Art Deco buildings of Old Havana, the country’s structural decay seems to worsen with each month.”
2006 was the year that Cuba moved from Fidel to Raul Castro. Not much changed beyond that!
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