How Is Cuba Doing 2024. In april 2020, a court in santiago de cuba sentenced him to 4.5 years of “restrictions on freedom” for alleged “assault” in a case that the united nations working group on arbitrary. (ap photo/ariel ley) fonseca is one of an increasing number of frustrated cubans who have to grapple with yet another hurdle while navigating the island’s already complicated monetary system — a shortage of cash.
Eight years after he began publishing his column contrapesos, the sum of his articles has become a broad window to study the recent economic history of cuba in these difficult years. Cuba’s sugar monopoly, azcuba, said the shortfall was to blame on a number of factors, including a lack of fuel and the breakdown of machinery which made bringing in the harvest difficult, as well.