The US-Cuba embargo created a bizarre world where waiters and artists are the richest people

After more than 50 years of halted diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US, President Barack Obama announced last year that the situation would finally start to normalize. "We will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests," he said in a speech at the White House. The embargo, however, didn't just fail to advance US interests. It turned Cuba's social structure completely upside-down. In Cuba today, native Cuban and renowned photographer Tony Mendoza tells...