'Here the salaries, prices and honesty don't go together'
Market in Santiago de Cuba. Diario de Cuba Choosing between eating, washing or dressing: this is the socialist roulette in which thousands of families from Santiago live, plagued by a shortage of food and other basic necessities, the rise in prices and the meager purchasing power of their wages. "Now what do I do? Should I buy the grocery allotment, soap, toothpaste or liquid detergent? It arrives once in a blue moon, and if I miss out I'm out of luck," Aleida asked at a bodega in Calle Nueva Rosa, as exasperated as her friend, commented that at home "the chicken l...
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