Chapter 1058 Havana Experience

Xiao Peng and the others watched their family of three enter the Medical University of Havana, which should be the most popular school in Havana, and it is a gathering place for all the top students.

But it's a bit funny to say, let's take this director as an example, he asked his daughter to come here to study, not really to become a doctor in the future, but to learn a foreign language well, and to do a job as a tour guide in the future.

In Cuba, doctors and waiters are currently paid the same salary, while tour guides, foreign-related service personnel, salespeople, etc., who master foreign languages, earn much more than doctors. Take the tour guide, for example, a tour guide costs $30 a day. This is very cheap in other countries, but in Cuba, it is a month's income for ordinary people!

Therefore, many students go to higher education to learn more language factors. On the way, the director of the health bureau who brought Xiao Peng and them here was eager to directly invite the two of them home to teach their daughter Chinese。。。。。。

However, Xiao Peng still politely declined his proposal, after all, they were here to play, maybe they would leave that day!

The two finally arrived in Havana, one of the most beautiful cities in the world!

But fortunately, there are 'red pesos' and 'blue pesos) given to them by Ivan, otherwise Xiao Peng and they would really be dumbfounded.

U.S. dollars are not good in Cuba and must be converted into local currency. Their 'red coins' are very similar to the foreign exchange coupons of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which are only used for crooked nuts.

Once the black market is also everywhere in circulation of dollars, just like the period of foreign currency speculation in China, to 05 years, Cuba launched this 'red currency' to replace the dollar, the initial bank exchange of one to one, who knows that the people only believe in the dollar, so the Cuban government increased the exchange rate, now a hundred dollars in Cuba can only be exchanged for eighty red coins, only to completely ban the circulation of dollars on the black market.

Xiao Peng watched people wave on the side of the road with money in their hands, and the bus stopped directly when it passed by, which was due to the oil shortage in 94 years, after the oil supply of the social-socialist-righteous brother countries dropped from 1,300 tons to three million tons, the government stipulated that as long as the bus could be stopped at will, including the bus.

The buses here are all Huaxia 'Yutong' buses, which are said to be aid projects. But the price is really cheap, fifty blue pesos can be multiplied to the end.

One blue peso is equivalent to three cents, which means that the bus fare is one dime。。。。。 Xiao Peng's lowest blue peso on his hands is also fifty, how can this Nima not even be able to take the bus。。。。。。

In the end, the two did not choose to walk, but got into the carriage of the enthusiast。。。。。。

The traffic in Havana is really bad, pedestrians walk in the middle of the road, cars, horse-drawn carriages are parallel, and this Cuban artist's artistic attainments are really not boastful, at least in terms of popularity, it is really good, it is good at singing and dancing, street performers on the side of the road are common, listening to the song and a group of people jumping------ which makes the urban traffic even more chaotic。。。。。。

To be honest, when Xiao Peng and the others walked on the streets of Havana, the first year that popped up in their minds was: "Isn't this the China of thirty-four years ago?"

Xiao Peng also saw a group of primary school students wearing red scarves and blue scarves walking by, which is still different from Huaxia, primary school students in grades 1-3 wear blue scarves, and students in grades 4-6 wear red scarves.

The architecture here is also very distinctive, almost all of them are villas, at first glance it seems like living in a high-end residential area in New York, but if you look closely, good guys, they are all peeling walls, broken doors and windows, these houses are mansions left over from before the Cuban Revolution, and now they are miscellaneous compounds.

After the victory of the Cuban Revolution, a large number of wealthy people fled abroad for fear of being "beaten by local tyrants" (the Chinese also left Cuba during that period, and only a few hundred people were left at that time. The Cuban side confiscated all these ownerless mansions and villas and distributed them to ordinary residents. A villa is divided among several families. Whether it is an old house confiscated or a newly built house, the occupant can obtain the ownership of the house after 18 consecutive years of renting a house as long as he pays a very low rent (a few cents a month).

However, this particular housing policy has also raised a number of problems, the most important of which are two.

The first is that since the residents own their own houses, they need to be responsible for repairing them, but in Cuba's state-owned planned economic system, the companies that repair houses are also state-owned enterprises, and the number of houses is small and inefficient, and it takes at least three or five years to find them to repair their houses, and it is difficult to buy the necessary building materials. As a result, the former mansion has been reduced to a dilapidated miscellaneous courtyard.

Another point that is even more terrifying is population growth! The level of medical care in Cuba is really not covered, and the average life expectancy and infant survival rate of Cubans are all among the top in the world! The pressure on people's lives is not high, so Cuba's population is always growing.

Because the speed of new housing in Cuba cannot keep up with people's demand, and Cubans like to live in the city, the population density here is very high, and many old houses in the younger generation can not find suitable housing when they grow up, so they have to live with their parents after getting married, and some houses have an inexplicable extra floor on top, just to solve such a problem.

In order to solve these problems, it is then that the role of the 'Committee for the Defense of the Revolution' that Xiao Peng saw when he was in the Bay of Pigs came into view.

Cuba has a well-developed community organization, which allows community councils to obtain building materials through government channels and organizes neighbors to repair houses. They do everything they need to do to collect recyclable waste products, to do things like health care, to maintain law and order, and so on.

However, their efforts were not in vain, and the Cuban people also gained experience in building houses. They really use the old crafts, what old-fashioned carpentry, stonemasons, masons, etc., these traditional crafts have long been eliminated in other countries, but they have been preserved in Cuba, and even a special 'old repair' school has been established, attracting students from all over the world to study.

Of course, Cuba is the most popular with Xiao Peng, and there is no doubt that it is definitely a classic car here! Cuba's classic car is a unique scenery in the world.

The vast majority of Cuban classic cars are produced in the 50s of the last century in the country of Stars and Stripes, with a total of more than 70,000 units, and some brands such as Pontic and Plymouth that have withdrawn from the stage of history can be seen here.

Before the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Stars and Stripes were the main exporters of cars to Cuba, including Castro, Che Guevara and others at that time all used the cars of the Stars and Stripes, but since the Cuban Revolution, the two countries began to be hostile to each other, after the Bay of Pigs incident, the two countries directly severed diplomatic relations, and the Stars and Stripes began to declare a total blockade of Cuba. The Argentinian symbol 404 can be seen in Cuba.

In recent years, due to the relatively good trade with China, the streets of Cuba are full of flowers, and there are many Geely and BYD, especially Geely, which feels more here than in China。。。。。。

But these Stars and Stripes vintage cars have not been abandoned, and with the skillful hands of the Cuban people, these classic cars are still alive and well on the streets of Cuba.

Many of these classic cars still retain their original engines, compartments and accessories, and some cars have been modified because of the lack of originals to continue to run; there are really no parts to use powerful wisdom to imitate one, anyway, as long as it can be used, it will never be used, many classic cars have changed the engine, gearbox, tires, etc., etc., in fact, there is only a shell left.

But even so, Xiao Peng's eyes are red, these cars are very well protected, and any one pulled back to China is an antique! This can make Xiao Peng cautious. It seems nice to bring these cars back with you.

However, the question they are thinking about now is not this, but where to live! Xiao Peng went around and found that the two of them had no place to live!

Cuba, like the North, has strict foreign-related laws, so ordinary people are not allowed to rent directly from foreigners, but some people will also earn this money, which is about a few dozen to more than a hundred red pesos a month. Like Xiao Peng, the two of them didn't have fake passports stamped through customs at all, so no one dared to rent a house for the two of them to live in!

Of course, there are also legal houses that are rented exclusively for tourists, which are equivalent to Chinese guest houses, with air conditioning and hot water, etc., for about 20 red pesos a day, and if you live in a hotel。。。。。。 They can't go!

Yang Meng also took out his mobile phone and wanted to check if there was a suitable place to live nearby, but Xiao Peng stopped him directly: "Don't bother, the title of the world's largest network abstinence center is not blown." Like the northern country, it's hard to get online. ”

Now the two of them are really dumbfounded, if it is another country, it is not difficult for the two to find a place to live, as long as they have money, this is not the case in Cuba, the management here can be strict------ the country with the best security in the entire Western Hemisphere is not blown!

As for bribing customs officials, as in Mexico, don't even think about it, there is almost no privilege and corruption in this particular Cuba, the relationship between the government and the people is very harmonious, and the salaries of the country's top leaders are comparable to those of university professors, or even less than those of some senior professors!

In such a country, it is really not easy to pay for someone to do things。。。。。。

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