Cuba's lessons in survival | Andrew Simms

Cuba has endured the decline of oil, extreme weather and an economic crisis. Could it teach us how to do the same?

The hiss from the audience could have been shock, surprise or a simple misunderstanding. A woman whose question stretched almost to the length of a speech by Fidel Castro said that Cuba's dire economic predicament was the result, partly, of a criminal government. It just wasn't clear which government she meant (more on which below). This was the first of a series of Hay events a