In 1992 the magazine Verde Olivo, an organ of the armed forces, published the book Con nuestros propios esfuerzos, a compendium of hacks from everyday life to solve the shortages, precariousness and absence of industrial products for home use through repair and innovation.īased on talks with some users and my own experience, there is a lot of reverse engineering going on, regarding the game server bases, which are all mounted on a pirated STEAM. Repair and recycling skills were facilitated and institutionalised through a movement called Asociación Nacional de Innovadores y Racionalizadores (National Association of Innovators and Rationalists). As a result, creative practices were accentuated and became essential to ensure the basics. This led to an unparalleled recession from which Cuba has still not recovered. After the fall of the socialist camp in 1990 and the tightening of the US embargo on Cuba, there was a collapse of the economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The culture of repair in Cuba was strengthened, above all, during the economic crisis of the 1990s a period often described with the euphemism “Período especial en tiempos de paz” (Special period in peacetime). In the Cuban context, these actions have a direct relation with precariousness.
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