The New York Times reporter Jack Nicas, who covers the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico, recently traveled to Cuba, where he discovered that the Cuban government and the Cuban people are still standing, defying President Donald Trump’s prediction six months ago that Cuba would soon be ruined by new restrictions on international petroleum trade with Cuba. Nicas found that Cubans were adapting to the situation, utilizing six-seater electric tricycles imported from China, using big lithium batteries to run appliances during blackouts, installing solar panels on roofs, and adapting generators to run on natural gas.
Creatively adapting with technical ingenuity has been the Cuban response since the early 1990s, when the Cuban economy was deeply impacted by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the East European socialist bloc. “We saw a lot of creativity during our trip across Cub…
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