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Cuba’s Castro Limited by Rationing and Reforms
A Havana dock worker, Juan Bales, earns about 100 dollars monthly loading cargo for export and lives with limited rations and a growing but uneven postrevolution economy. He notes some repairs with cement and wood, access to a mint‑green refrigerator, and occasional private beer bars, while Americans’ blockade and drought shape daily life and be limited tobacco and cigarettes.
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