“We’ve had a process for doing things. Some [things] went well and some didn’t,” says Joaquin Infante Ugarte, an adviser on Cuba’s state-run economy, meticulously describing plans to update the socialist country’s development model on a humid June afternoon in Havana.
Mr Infante Ugarte, vice-president of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba, lived through the armed revolution of the 1950s against the US-backed government of the time, which reshaped the Caribbean island’s social and economic fibre. In the decades since, he has seen some of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren moving to and growing up in the US.
