I'll tell you the short story. Students from Africa and Asia were concentrated here, supposedly to educate them, but in reality it was a very lucrative business for the government here. In addition, there were Cuban students living there in a supposed work-study program, but in reality they maintained the agriculture in exchange for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as if they were slaves. I experienced this when I was 12 years old. They gave me a machete that was my size to cut the grass and I carried 100-pound sacks of potatoes when I weighed only 60 to 80 pounds.

Over time, this system was dismantled and these buildings were abandoned. They began to be used to solve the housing problem and also to force the people who live there to work in agriculture for precarious wages.

That is the true story of these adapted communities.