HAVANA — José Menenses, a taxi driver, slept in his 1952 Ford convertible along with hundreds of other drivers to save his spot in line to get an allotted 5 gallons of gas amid the country’s fuel shortage.
“This is not the first time we’re in great difficulty, so we’ve always managed to have a Plan B,” he said, when asked what he would do if the shortages prevented him from driving people around. In Havana, people are also ferried around by bicycle or horse-drawn cabs.
Menenses said he had to find a second job as a food vendor to make ends meet. He considers himself lucky because his children have small businesses that bring in some cash, and he has a small solar generator in his house and food in his refrigerator.
“I love what I do,” Menenses told NBC News. But these days there are few tourists and practically no
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