JATIBONICO, Cuba ¨C Hours over rutted roads inland from Havana, the small Cuban city of Jatibonico is a snapshot of late 19th-century living, its streets crowded with horse-drawn carriages and lacking power much of the day and night.
The town¡¯s decrepit sugar mill ¡ª once the country¡¯s largest ¡ª sits idle, lacking the parts, electricity and fuel it needs to operate.
Two years ago a Russian company, Progress Agro, announced it would import machinery, fertilizer, and know-how to revitalize the mill, which once employed 2,000 people.
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