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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctor in his late 30s, near the top in his field, despairs of the future. "I was a believer until the late 1980s. Now I am agnostic," he says. His home in the suburbs of Havana is comfortable by comparison with those of most Cubans: the prerevolutionary furniture is carefully preserved, and a 50-year- old refrigerator is stocked with black-market meat bought with dollars sent by relatives in Miami. Although his oven no longer works, he is an expert, like all Cubans, at resolviendo (resolving the problem): he bakes cakes in a pressure cooker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Poor Patriot to Do? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...drama on the Straits of Florida, most Cubans struggle on, trying to patch together a normal life. Government workers returned to their desks last week from August vacations. Children put on their maroon uniforms and went back to classrooms lacking books, pencils and paper. In the streets of Havana, the gossip has turned from Castro's woes -- the bad sugar harvest, the new taxes, the problem of prostitution -- to the rafters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Poor Patriot to Do? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...generation, who are proud of the superior education and health system handed down to their children, to leave is to break faith with the revolution. "Tell my son I'm fine," says Teodomira Rodriguez, standing in the doorway of her small pensioner's apartment in the Vedado section of Havana. The 62-year-old widow said goodbye to her two sons last month: Rafael, 34, died at sea; Pedro, 32, survived but was hospitalized in Miami with dehydration and blisters after six days afloat. "They left because of the economic problems," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Poor Patriot to Do? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Havana's stoic, inventive populace manages to keep going. "It's better to work for yourself," says a railway laborer. "If you can earn just $5 a month, that's more than you get in a government factory." Sidewalk vendors selling everything from wood carvings and homemade jewelry to their personal possessions have popped up all over the capital. Everyone seems to be expert in the art of black-market dealing, trading what they have for what they cannot find in the stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Poor Patriot to Do? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Like many of his University of Havana friends, Gutierrez runs a new venture in Cuba with little government control: in his case, ecotourism tours for Costa Rica's LACSA airline. "Now the young have a chance for their own revolution, a revolution in the economy, a revolution in service," he says, grinning because he knows what people think of service in communist countries. And political change? "Yes, that must come too," he says. "In the '60s, '70s and even the '80s, the Cuban system was fine. Now, no. Often you hear people say, 'I am not my father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Poor Patriot to Do? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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