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FROM
CUBA
Price of bus tickets up
HAVANA, Cuba - June 22 (Abel Escobar Ramírez
/ www.cubanet.org) - "Tickets are 132
pesos," said the announcer at Havana's
bus terminal after announcing the departure
of a bus to Santiago de Cuba June 13.
"That's thievery," said a woman
who said she was traveling to Camaguey province.
" I came to Havana for a medical visit
and left home with 65 pesos. I was able
to afford the visit by stayin with family,
but I have to come back next month, and
if fares go up. I won't be a ble to afford
it."
Others made similar comments. Two elderly
residents of Las Tunas said fares from their
home in Amancio Rodriguez municipality had
already gone up from a previous two pesos
and something to 23 pesos.
A sailor from Holguin province said the
same applied to him. The government has
raised salaries recently, but nowhere near
enough to compensate for the increases in
prices, many here complain.
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