{"id":14716,"date":"2011-11-07T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14716"},"modified":"2011-11-07T09:12:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:12:38","slug":"cuba-turns-notorious-clunkers-into-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/cuba-turns-notorious-clunkers-into-gold","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Turns Notorious Clunkers Into Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14719\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14719\" title=\"cuba-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cuba-auto-250x131.jpg\" alt=\"A classic American car in Cuba\" width=\"250\" height=\"131\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Goitia for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Until a few weeks ago, Erik Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s decrepit car did little more than  devour his tiny income. He spent hundreds of dollars fixing the car, a  30-year-old Moskvich that his grandfather passed down to him in 2000.  Even when it worked, Mr. Gonz\u00e1lez could rarely afford to buy gas.<\/p>\n<p>Then, overnight, the Soviet-made rattletrap became his nest egg.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gonz\u00e1lez put the car up for sale last month when the government  published rules allowing Cubans to buy and sell used vehicles freely for  the first time in half a century.<\/p>\n<p>The axle may be wonky, the carburetor shot, the battery on its last legs  and the headlights inoperable, but he believes his royal-blue Moskvich  will fetch at least $5,500, a small killing for a waiter whose state  salary \u2014 before tips and extras \u2014 is just $15 a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Burnett, in The New York Times, reports on the changes that are taking place in Cuba now that the government has published new rules allowing Cubans to buy and sell used vehicles freely for the first time in half a century. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[110,84],"class_list":["post-14716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-autos","tag-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}