/ 14ymedioA walk through El Vedado reveals the decline of the commercial network the military built to control remittances, tourism, and hard-currency stores. The former Fincimex card processing center on 23rd Street in El Vedado belongs to the latter category. For years, Gaesa built an economic empire with the ambition of controlling every profitable business of the country. There are administrative ruins, commercial ruins, and symbolic ruins as well. They remain standing, with their doors closed and their signs still hanging, as if waiting for an impossible return.