Cuban minister resigns after downplaying poverty

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — The labour minister in economically depressed Cuba has resigned amid an uproar over her claim that people rummaging through garbage cans were only pretending to be poor and not truly desperate. Such scenes of acute need are common in Cuba, especially in Havana, as people in the communist run country grapple with runaway inflation, meagre wages and food shortages, causing some to resort to panhandling or eating out of the trash. The labour minister who denied this, Marta El...