Model, a store selling clothing and miscellaneous goods (a bit of cleaning products, some food), must have once been elegant. In front of the sign posted on the window of the Model store in Havana, on January 2, 2026, after it was burglarized. LUCIEN LUNG/RIVA PRESS FOR LE MONDESan Rafael Street was shocked. So she stayed on San Rafael Street. Even police officers had left, among the more than two million people who had fled Cuba in just over four years.