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My Return To Cuba, In Search Of A Glimmer Of Hope

Passers-by walking by graffiti of Che Guevara on a Cuban flag at a street corner in old town Havana on June 22, 2018.
Passers-by walking by graffiti of Che Guevara on a Cuban flag at a street corner in old town Havana on June 22, 2018.

Cuba has long been a country where very few people work, the fields do not produce, and it is one of the most aged countries in Latin America. A revolution that is no more.

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Worms And Blackouts: Cuba’s Dark Reality Of Missed Opportunities

Photo of two men sitting in a bicycle cab during a power cut in Cuba.
During an island-wide power cut, two men sit in a bicycle cab. Nick Kaiser/dpa/ZUMA

Cuba’s current energy crisis is a dramatic illustration, symbolic and otherwise, of the overall downfall of a country that could have followed the successful models of its Asian cousins. Faced with a socioeconomic dead-end, record numbers of Cubans are fleeing the country.

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