since you addresed me, the Havana buildings are constantly worked on.
They need to raze some of them, and
need US type contractors - skilled labor, but more than that materials.
Craftmen/carpenters manage to try to kepp them up, but the climate, and the age is taking it's toll.
Again i mention the US is a natural trading partner (by geography), and it is just plain stupid to keep a hostile regime
even more hostile by a useless US Embargo.
Yes Cuba trades with the world, but the old Soviet subsidys are gone. The US subsidizes our sugar - it's even called "Big Sugar"
and it's damn near ruined the Everglades.
Cuba isn't a rich country, and their socilism has good and bad parts, they are finally encouracing some private enterprise.
The US should be encouraging this, not punishing them with an outdated Embargo
The Cuban Embargo is FUBAR -
Urban Dictionary: fubar