It's no surprise to me that Castro would choose to do business with China over Europe, and Cuba has no access to ordering buses from Prevost, GM, or MCI because they're US companies.
Cuba badly needs modern buses, at any rate. Some "buses" in Cuba are little more than bus-style trailers pulled by Peterbilt or Kenworth Semis. In a way they sort of resemble enormous versions of the old horse-drawn omnibuses of the 19th century.
As for cars, there are now many European cars in Cuba, and they're gradually supplanting the old Russian cars and the even older American cars on Cuba's streets. I think that's sad in a way, but people in Cuba really love those old pre-revolution American (and to a lesser extent British) cars that they've got down there. They're handed down as family heirlooms and kept running through most ingenious means (many now use diesel engines taken from dead Soviet-era trucks).
Cuba badly needs modern buses, at any rate. Some "buses" in Cuba are little more than bus-style trailers pulled by Peterbilt or Kenworth Semis. In a way they sort of resemble enormous versions of the old horse-drawn omnibuses of the 19th century.
As for cars, there are now many European cars in Cuba, and they're gradually supplanting the old Russian cars and the even older American cars on Cuba's streets. I think that's sad in a way, but people in Cuba really love those old pre-revolution American (and to a lesser extent British) cars that they've got down there. They're handed down as family heirlooms and kept running through most ingenious means (many now use diesel engines taken from dead Soviet-era trucks).
