The direct legacy of closing a hundred sugar mills has been a string of communities with engineers and technicians that, suddenly, didn't have any factories to help operate or repair. The best distributed industrial branch of Cuba and the oldest employment source in the nation were eliminated; and in many ways, no alternatives were created for those lost jobs or for the services in the communities where the mills were located.
In vielen Fällen wurden keine Alternativen für die Arbeitsstellen und Leistungen, die die Anlagen in den Gemeinden generierten, in denen sie sich befanden, geschaffen.