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“... market.In a stylish set of profiles now collected in a book, the Cuban journalist and novelist Carlos ManuelÁlvarez describes the black market of this period:At the Technical University of Havana José Antonio Echeverría – the CUJAE, the most important technological university in the country – most of the ...”

“... November, almost every Latin American country had returned to some form of constitutional rule. Manuel Noriega held out in Panama, but he was dispatched a month later by US troops in Washington’s first post-Cold War invasion. There was still Fidel Castro, but Cuba was isolated, having lost its Soviet Bloc trading partners. By June 1990, Bush père could ...”

“... and covered with scars. She perches on a bed strewn with rubbish, waiting for her husband Manuel to bring her a dose. Other houses are clean and tidy, like the one belonging to a 27-year-old whom we’ll call David: children’s clothes hang in a courtyard, there is expensive furniture, a big flat-screen TV. A six-year-old girl, vivacious in her ...”