(Emerson Lynn, jr., associate editor of the Register was one of a small group of newspaper editors who spent the week of Jan. 16-23 in Cuba as members of a study mission arranged by the Inland Press Association. This is the second of a series of articles reporting on the trip.)
The average Cuban earns a salary of $20 U.S. a month. How on earth can you live on that, we asked our guide. “By magic,” she replied. The real answer is less romantic. Economists there estimate it takes $80 a month to keep body and soul together. Cubans scrape together the $60 difference by selling…
Cubans subsist ‘by magic’
