do you think you re gonna be in cuba for the rest of your life? yes. because cuba is changing very fast. the obstacles are daunting. this clothing designer has to buy fabric on the black market. ooh! this restaurant owner isn t allowed any more than 50 seats. the state says she isn t allowed to expand her business. you cannot have two stands? no. this sucks. meet cuba s new business class, surviving and thriving under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. [ music continues ] [ flamenco guitar plays ] i had barely set foot on cuban soil when i saw how the new business laws are changing lives. armando lee rolled up in a 61-year-old chevy a typical havana taxi. how you doing, my man? hello, my friend. i m marcus. marcus. my name is armando. nice to meet you. armando? yeah.wa living on a government wage worth about $25 a month. now he makes that in a single day, thanks to the taxi license he got under the new law. this is a good business.
holdouts of communism to meet some pioneers of capitalism. the doors for the first time are wide open. i m definitely a businessman. i love doing this. do you think you re gonna be in cuba for the rest of your life? yes. because cuba is changing very fast. the obstacles are daunting. this clothing designer has to buy fabric on the black market. ooh! this restaurant owner isn t allowed any more than 50 seats. the state says she isn t allowed to expand her business. you cannot have two stands? no. this sucks. meet cuba s new business class, surviving and thriving under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. [ music continues ] [ flamenco guitar plays ] i had barely set foot on cuban soil when i saw how the new business laws are changing lives. armando lee rolled up in a 61-year-old chevy a typical havana taxi. how you doing, my man? hello, my friend. i m marcus. marcus. my name is armando. nice to meet you. armando? yeah. nice to meet y
holdouts of communism to meet some pioneers of capitalism. the doors for the first time are wide open. i m definitely a businessman. i love doing this. do you think you re gonna be in cuba for the rest of your life? yes. because cuba is changing very fast. the obstacles are daunting. this clothing designer has to buy fabric on the black market. ooh! this restaurant owner isn t allowed any more than 50 seats. the state says she isn t allowed to expand her business. you cannot have two stands? no. this sucks. meet cuba s new business class, surviving and thriving under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. [ music continues ] [ flamenco guitar plays ] i had barely set foot on cuban soil when i saw how the new business laws are changing lives. armando lee rolled up in a 61-year-old chevy a typical havana taxi. how you doing, my man? hello, my friend. i m marcus. marcus. my name is armando. nice to meet you. armando? yeah. nice to meet y
holdouts of communism to meet some pioneers of capitalism. the doors for the first time are wide open. i m definitely a businessman. i love doing this. do you think you re gonna be in cuba for the rest of your life? yes. because cuba is changing very fast. the obstacles are daunting. this clothing designer has to buy fabric on the black market. ooh! this restaurant owner isn t allowed any more than 50 seats. the state says she isn t allowed to expand her business. you cannot have two stands? no. this sucks. meet cuba s new business class, surviving and thriving under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. [ music continues ] [ flamenco guitar plays ] i had barely set foot on cuban soil when i saw how the new business laws are changing lives. armando lee rolled up in a 61-year-old chevy a typical havana taxi. how you doing, my man? hello, my friend. i m marcus. marcus. my name is armando. nice to meet you. armando? yeah. nice to meet y
you cannot have two stands? no. this sucks. meet cuba s new business class, surviving and thriving under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. [ music continues ] [ flamenco guitar plays ] i had barely set foot on cuban soil when i saw how the new business laws are changing lives. armando lee rolled up in a 61-year-old chevy a typical havana taxi. how you doing, my man? hello, my friend. i m marcus. marcus. my name is armando. nice to meet you. armando? yeah. nice to meet you, brother. like most cubans, armando was living on a government wage worth about $25 a month. now he makes that in a single day, thanks to the taxi license he got under the new law. this is a good business. and you can make good money doing this? i can save a little bit for my own business. the best job is to do your own company, a small business. your own company. yeah, exactly. with his newfound cash and a degree in computer engineering, armando hopes to launch h