From our Bureau of Socialist Agriculture

No surprise, really. Every kind of agricultural enterprise in Castrogonia is failing, just as everything else is failing in its infrastructure. This is what 64 years of a totalitarian socialist/communist dictatorship can do to any country, even those that were once prosperous.

From Granma Euro-Lite (Reuters)

Cuba´s Pinar del Rio province, renowned for its luxuriuosly smooth tobacco, is heading towards its worst harvest ever, state run media reported late on Wednesday.

The province, which produces the majority of the tobacco used in the Caribbean island nation´s coveted, hand-rolled cigars, was steam-rolled by Hurricane Ian last fall. Most of the region´s tobacco drying houses were flattened and homes and infrastructure destroyed.