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    Havana Now Has A Luxury Mall. But Who Can Afford To Shop There?

    by Laurel Wamsley May 09, 2017 3 minutes
    Cuba's first luxury mall is in Old Havana's Manzana de Gómez building, built between 1894 and 1917 as the country's first European-style shopping arcade.

    Cuba is not an easy place to buy things. Food is rationed, wages are low, and the black market is a way of life.

    But now, Cubans can buy shirts with those little alligators on them at Lacoste. Or at L'Occitane en Provence, face cream for $162.40 an ounce. Or watches in the $10,000s.

    Cuba's first luxury mall, Manzana de Gomez, opened up a few weeks ago. And while

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