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One day, when walking through Old Havana, my friends and I came across the shop for Clandestina, Cuba’s first private fashion brand. The company references the clandestine operations that characterized the revolution’s resistance to the US-backed Batista dictatorship, but its existence marks the transformation of Cuba’s economy with allowances for more privately-owned businesses. There is …

This billboard features a quote from the Cuban president who succeeded Raúl Castro(pictured left), Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez (pictured right). The translation reads: Of course wedepend on our producers … of course we depend on the cooperative sector and our farmers.Interestingly, although this billboard primarily features farmers, it is located in Havana, Cuba’smetropolitan capital. In this …