Caribbean contagion
Venezuela’s pneumonia infects the communist island
QUEUES at petrol stations. Sweltering offices. Unlit streets. Conditions in Cuba’s capital remind its residents of the “special period” in the 1990s caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today, the benefactor in trouble is Venezuela.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Caribbean contagion”
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