By Ernesto Gonzalez Díaz

HAVANA TIMES – A few days ago, a neighbor approached my mother to ask if he could rent the back patio to store a car he had just bought. According to him, it would only be for a few days, until he received approval for the official license plates. My mother agreed, since it’s a bit of extra income that certainly doesn’t hurt.

The car turned out to be a Hyundai Santa Fe SUV, a fairly expensive vehicle, especially in the midst of the country’s critical economic situation. And that made me reflect on the much-touted social equity that the government used to boast about.

Nowadays, a university engineering student—at least those I know—spends around 4,500 pesos a month on review sessions and private tutoring. That’s without counting transportation and food expenses to get to the university, which I estimate to be, at a minimum, about 12,000 pesos altogether (two and a half times an average salary). How many........

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