* Cuba - Transportation hitch
Getting around the island often requires relying on the kindness of strangers - and few pesosHavana,Cuba -The St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg,FL,USA), by DAVID ADAMS -September 1, 2007: -- Maricel Alvarez, a 25-year-old nurse, commutes 20 miles to work at a nursing home in eastern Cuba... Like most Cubans, she doesn't have a car. There's no bus service either. So she has to hitch a ride... Sometimes a truck driver will stop, and she piles in the open back with other hitchhikers. If she's lucky, a Cuban driving a private car will pick her up... "I love my job," says Alvarez. "The only problem is transport"... Hers is a lament heard all across Cuba. Of all the shortcomings of Cuba's state-run socialist economy, public transport is perhaps the nation's No. 1 headache...
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