NPCA Goes To Cuba! Part VIII (Final Blog) Cuba Today
The conditions of Cuba today are obvious from first sight. This is a land that stopped progress decades ago when the Soviet Union turned its back on the island. The topic that is on everyone’s list of concerns when meeting Cubans is housing. Their housing. There is nowhere to live, though the neighborhoods in greater Havana, and other cities, are full of abandoned and crumbling architecture, beautiful pre-revolutionary housing crying out to be saved. After the revolution of 1959, and the U.S. embargo, most of Havana fell into a dilapidated state. By 1968, all privately owned businesses were nationalized. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba lost billions of dollars in aid from Russia. And the U.S., 90 miles away, wasn’t helping them. Now, after fifty plus years, Cuba is turning to tourism to right this socialist country where an estimated 15% of all Cubans live . . .
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Barbara E. Joe
Here's a short excerpt below from my "Confessions" book (published in 2014) about a man who worked tirelessly to find…