Working from her back porch turned beauty salon, Whana Lamiles supplies a code of various-ranging red polish. The former math teacher charges the equivalent of 50 cents for a manicure.
I loved my career, she says, but I didn't make enough to survive. This won't make me rich, but I make enough to live on.
Like many Cubans going into business for themselves over the last eight months, relatives abroad help keep her afloat with a steady supply of nail polish.
This mobile phone doctor wouldn’t be in business at all if it wouldn't for the start-up money that an uncle in Miami sent him. He cracks encryption codes and fixes his phones, most of them sent from family abroad.
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