Photo Essay : Life’s Fire Turns to Ashes in Havana
The Cuban system is wavering badly since the pullout of the Eastern European network of trade and subsidization. Havana shows the signs of an ever-crumbling infrastructure. Rationing is tighter, goods are scarcer and patience is thinner. Everywhere the Cubans wait for “the fall” (la caida) to happen, yet the Cubans speak of helplessness and an inability to change their situation themselves.
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