Cuba: Suffering a Setback  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“To Cubans and others who love the country, what just happened is truly heartbreaking. Two powerful hurricanes in ten days ravaged agriculture, wreaked havoc with the electricity grid and telecommunications and damaged or destroyed well over three hundred thousand homes”: Havana-based blogger Circles Robinson says that “Cuba’s development strategies for at least the next several years have been seriously set back.”