"I, for example, am number 39,374 in a virtual queue that yesterday closed at position 20,848."

That's harsher than expected, and you point out it's worse outside Havana. Such terrible suffering in such a beautiful country.

You make many good points about the informal market mechanism. I am confident every entity that has both a non profit and a for profit arm is dirty. However, when there's only one port in a storm, at least there's a port in the storm.

Thanks!