Sorry they have to import sugar now.
That is so hard to believe. When we lived in Guantanamo Bay, we would sit outside at night overlooking the bay (we were out there to watch movies outdoors at the Chief's Club) and in the fall, they would burn the old sugar cane crops, making way for the spring growth. The sky was red with the reflection of the flames.
I seem to recall they had problems with the harvest. They also have struggled to keep electrical power on in the socialist paradise.
I remember an old OLD political cartoon from the 1960s with Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR trading with Cuba. He is setting at a desk with a cup of coffee held out.
Castro is filling the cup with so much sugar from a 50 lb sack that it overflows the coffee and is almost up to Khrushchev’s knees. Wonder how that would work out today.