Coaching Cuba in public transport

Yutong's 5,890 buses have transformed the Castro-led Caribbean country socio-economically

A young Cuban professor who commutes over 20 km every day from her home in western Havana to the city's downtown has witnessed a dramatic change in the public transport system that has troubled the Carribean country's people for decades.

Maylin Orta, 32, has to catch two buses or "guaguas," as the locals call them, to get to work in a commute that used to take her up to four hours.