Güines, Mayabeque – “Capitalism must be uprooted, parasitism must be uprooted, the exploitation of man must be uprooted,” cried Fidel Castro in 1968 to rapturous…

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Cienfuegos, Cuba – “Without sugar, there’s no country,” the old Cuban saying goes. From the moment Spanish colonists first planted cane here in the 16th…

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For Jose Guerra Ferrer, a Havana-based industrial engineer, “the economic situation in Cuba is bad”. “I hope it can be addressed by the new parliament,”…

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