Havana's Disenchanted Youth: HAVANA-CUBA-YOUTH-EMBARGO_16

El Fanguito, Havana Sitting at home in the shanty town El Fanguito on the banks of the Almendares river, single mother Dayren Rodríguez Echevarría, 24, watches a Mexican telenovela in suspense. She shares the makeshift house with her baby, mother and two sisters. The economic reforms have increased the gap between rich and poor and the disparity is particularly affecting Afro-Cubans who are less likely to receive remittances from family abroad that could be used to supplement the low government wages or to start a small private business.

El Fanguito, Havana Sitting at home in the shanty town El Fanguito on the banks of the Almendares river, single mother Dayren Rodríguez Echevarría, 24, watches a Mexican telenovela in suspense. She shares the makeshift house with her baby, mother and two sisters. The economic reforms have increased the gap between rich and poor and the disparity is particularly affecting Afro-Cubans who are less likely to receive remittances from family abroad that could be used to supplement the low government wages or to start a small private business.