1989
The 1989 collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba’s chief benefactor, decimated Cuba’s economy, leading to chronic fuel and food shortages. Conditions became so awful for most Cubans that in 1992, according to one government survey, the average Cuban man lost 20 pounds from his body weight because he simply couldn’t get enough to eat.
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books
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