Construction Boom Draws Thousands of Cubans Into Oil-Rich Guyana

Construction workers at a site where a prefabricated school is being built in the Subryanville neighborhood of Georgetown, Guyana.Photographer: Yancey Haywood/Bloomberg

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Guyana, a fast-growing petrostate, is ripe with construction plans but short on workers. So the companies building roads, bridges and other infrastructure there are turning to Cuban migrants as a new source of labor.