Business & Economy

The people who fish on a small-scale work in the gray zone of “illegality.” “As such, we are not authorized to fish for sale.”

Uncertainty looms over the thousands of Cuban doctors who remain in Venezuela and rumors are multiplying in the absence of information.

In addition, the Canadian company’s production of natural gas that supplies much of Havana is declining.

With a simple sign taped to the glass, the shops at the Habana Libre Hotel eliminate the national currency.

The strategy to confront the shortage could not have been more senseless: telling farmers to replace tractors and harvesters with oxen teams and manual laborers.

“The 1,000 pesos I had saved to buy a little piece of meat are going to go on medicines,” says a retired woman in San Jose de las Lajas, Havana.