Nelson Labrada, Cuba's vice-minister of sugar, sums up his industry's initial response to the economic changes of the 1990s as "insufficiently revolutionary". The collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba's main market for more than three decades, triggered a steep decline in the Cuban sugar industry, with production falling last year to its lowest level in 50 years....more

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