“It’s a disaster. Today the sugar industry in Cuba almost doesn’t exist.” Juan Triana of the Centre for Studies of the Cuban Economy didn’t mince words when he spoke to the BBC about the status of the crop that was once at the center of the island’s economy. Here’s a breakdown by the numbers: 350,000: That’s how many metric tons of sugar that mills yielded last season, a staggering drop from the 1.3 million recorded in 2019. This year is on track to finish even lower. In 1989, when Cuba was the world’s top sugar exporter, the island nation produced 8 million metric tons, per Reuters. The decli…