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Sugar

also

brought development and luxury to Cuba. During the “Dance of the Millions”, when the price of

sugar

soared after the outbreak of World War I, the local “

sugarocracy

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sugarcraft

”, not knowing what else to do with their dizzying profits, commissioned decadent Renaissance and Art Nouveau mansions that still line Havana’s more affluent suburbs. But for decades, the industry has been in decline.

While

the island regularly produced more than 7 million tonnes in the 1980s,

last

season — squeezed by new “maximum pressure” United States sanctions — it yielded only 480,000 tonnes.

This

year, the target is even lower as Cuba heads for its worst

sugar

harvest in more than a century. “Once we were the country that exported the most

sugar

,” Dionis Perez, director of communications at Azcuba, the state agency that regulates

sugar

production, told Al Jazeera. But “

this

is the first year that Cuba doesn’t plan to export more

sugar

than it consumes”.