![]() He is currently busy supplying the city's large private businesses with all kinds of things. Our whole family is from the countryside, with two cousins who migrated abroad, but who are not committed to helping us financially, so I decided to go out and 'scrap' in the street, and stop working for the State, or our house would?ve ended falling on us, and I'd have squandered my youth," Machado explained.įrom working without a contract at small private businesses, or on accounting books, to selling everything from wheat flour, to jewelry, to drugs, Machado delved into any and every illegal business that appeared on the streets of Havana. "It was impossible with my salary and my parents' payments, especially after the 'rearrangement' and the inflation that ensued. ![]() Both his parents are retired, and his younger brother is in school. ![]() "In Cuba, if you're young, to enjoy your youth you can't work for the State, you have to scrap," said Aaron Machado, a 25-year-old Havana man we met at one of the most exclusive bars in the historic center of Old Havana, where he was eating with his partner and some friends.Īfter completing his studies in Accounting, he tried to support his family with state jobs.
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