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Cuban sugar industry demise mirrors food crisis Cuba's sugar output expected to drop to 300,000 metric tons by 2025 Fuel, fertilizer, machinery shortages hit Cuba's sugar industry hard US sanctions, COVID-19 crisis worsen Cuba's economic and agricultural decline By Marc Frank HAVANA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Cuba, which once produced millions of tons of sugar, expects to output just 300,000 metric tons of the sweetener in 2025, according to provincial media reports, as it struggles to find the resourc...

Four power cuts in a weekend born of the state's penury have caused nationwide struggles and shortagesDusk has become a particularly frenetic time in Havana, as Cuba prepared for a third night without electricity after repeated failed attempts to restart the national grid.Long queues formed for bread in the capital earlier in the day. The previous night, people had emerged from humid homes to search for food, drink, news. “What's the point of staying at home?” asked Alejandro Hernandez outside a bar in the neighbourhood of Vedado. Continue reading......