Havana (AFP) – For 60 years, Cuban life revolved around a small well-thumbed ration book used by families to buy subsidized goods in state-run stores. But as state "bodegas" disappear, the "libreta" ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee in a Cuban state-run grocery store examines a ration book, a disappearing symbol of a crumbling communist economy ...
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HAVANA -- José Luis Amate López hasn't had a customer in almost two weeks, not counting the scrawny brown kitten that slinks around the bodega where he works in central Havana. The shelves once laden ...
Havana: Jose Luis Amate Lopez hasn’t had a customer in almost two weeks, not counting the scrawny brown kitten that slinks around the bodega where he works in central Havana. The shelves once laden ...