'Raúl Castro's family controls GAESA parcel delivery, and tourism, while those of Guillermo García Frías and Juan Almeida Bosque run the agri-food business and the monopoly on imports. The Miguel Díaz-Canel and Manuel Marrero tandem, wallowing in tourism dividends, is raking it in.'
Five families in Cuba share their struggles to put food on the table under the trying circumstances of 2023. Some households have gone from three meals to one.
Fidel Castro's successors are dispensing with the Cuban Revolution and its 'achievements' while assembling a Frankenstein system comprised of rotten pieces of oligarchical capitalism and the most vapid socialism.
Castroism is striving to dress up its permits to create MSMEs as if they were rights, the aim being to veil their most important characteristic: their temporality.