No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba

No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba

Q24N (The Guardian) Felix Valdés García was just nine when the revolutionaries came to destroy his family’s trees, a symbol of a sweeping change that would ripple through Cuba for decades. In the late 1960s, as Cuba’s communist regime launched the Revolutionary Offensive, Felix’s father lost their 800-hectare farm to a campaign aimed at clearing land for an immense sugar cane harvest — a desperate bid for financial independence that uprooted fam…