Category — Internal migration

According to Juventud Rebelde, Cuba continues to face a mass internal migration from the provinces to the capital of Havana.

City of Havana continues to be the primary point of attraction for a great majority of Cubans who decide to move.  And as so it happens in the rest of the world, the grand metropolis offers wonders — at times to great for popular thought — which seduces and traps people, even though they have to traverse multiple hardships.

The numbers of the last Population and Housing Census, which took place in 2002, demonstrates that the capital absorbed 40.8 % of the total immigrants from the rest of the country.

Historically, the population of the island has moved from the East towards the West.  The principal migratory waves that have established themselves are five and are from Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Villa Clara, Holguín y Pinar del Río, with its sole destination: City of Havana.

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But the economic crisis detained development strategies that the country carried.  In the middle of those difficult circumstances, in the 90s, a great demographic explosion took place in the capital caused by a spontaneous and excessive exodus from other territories.

[Graphic: Juventud Rebelde]

[H/T: Penultimos Dias]

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