Cuba is famous for the 1950s cars still on the road, but few Cubans can afford them.
Based on my observations and conversations with our translators, there are three classes of people in Cuba.
Income inequality is so extreme that Cuba has two currencies, one for tourists and senior government officials-and one for everyone else.
Conditions in Cuba may be deteriorating further thanks to the collapse of Venezuela, itself a socialist basket case where people are starving and go without basic medicine.
Cuba used to receive oil and cash from Venezuela in exchange for what amounts to slave labor performed by Cuban physicians.
Cuba is not as totalitarian as it was in the early days after the revolution, when the government sent critics of the regime to labor camps.
Visitors from the U.S. will find that the people of Cuba are warm and friendly, despite their bleak circumstances.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-cuba-is-a-land-of-extreme-deprivation-11582910965?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
Based on my observations and conversations with our translators, there are three classes of people in Cuba.
Income inequality is so extreme that Cuba has two currencies, one for tourists and senior government officials-and one for everyone else.
Conditions in Cuba may be deteriorating further thanks to the collapse of Venezuela, itself a socialist basket case where people are starving and go without basic medicine.
Cuba used to receive oil and cash from Venezuela in exchange for what amounts to slave labor performed by Cuban physicians.
Cuba is not as totalitarian as it was in the early days after the revolution, when the government sent critics of the regime to labor camps.
Visitors from the U.S. will find that the people of Cuba are warm and friendly, despite their bleak circumstances.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-cuba-is-a-land-of-extreme-deprivation-11582910965?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
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