After Irma, Cubans Are Ready to Get Back to Business
After Irma, Cubans Are Ready to Get Back to Business
Major tourism sites in Havana and elsewhere are back to normal after Hurricane Irma. Visitors would help the rest of the country recover.
Hurricane Irma was expected to largely skirt Cuba, sweeping over the eastern tip of the island before barreling toward Florida. Instead, the monstrous storm practically ran the length of the nation, leaving a path of destruction along the northern coast. This was the first time the eye of a category five storm reached the island since 1932, and the immediate consequences were dire.
The malecón, Havana’s famed seawall, was no match for the 20-foot swells that hurtled against it. Low-lying neighborhoods were flooded, laying to waste the belongings of tens of thousands of ...
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