Despite Cuba’s economic crisis, many women are embracing elaborate nail art as a bold fashion statement. Manicurists like ...

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Source: U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council Lazaro Fidel Lopez, 33, and his wife Diamelis Faure, 26, in their apartment on the third floor of a dilapidated building where they live with Lazaro's ...

Cuba's economy is an anachronism -- a centrally-planned disaster that fully fell apart when the Soviet Union did. But the country somehow staggers. The Cuban Economy, in Pictures | Nasdaq ...

As Cuba careens through its worst economic crisis in 30 years, ... On the wall are photos of Cuban revolutionaries Camilo Cienfuegos, left, and Che Guevara.

An era has ended in Communist-run Cuba as President Raul Castro retires and hands over the reins to his successor, Miguel Diaz-Canel, born the year after brothers Fidel and Raul led their 1959 ...

13 Pictures of the Cuba ... People born after 1989 “were born into the Special Period when the U.S.S.R. collapsed and withdrew from Cuba,” he says. “It was one of the worst economic ...

As for Cuba’s economy, the historical view is helpful. Mr. Salazar-Carrillo and Mr. Nodarse-Leon write, “As the 1950s began, Cuba had a lot to be proud of with respect to the economic ...