SANTIAGO DE CUBA, April 13 (Juan Carlos Garcell, APLO) - An administrator’s decision to limit the sale of plantains to two pounds per person at a government rationed food outlet caused a near-riot in Moa on April 4.

The administrator of Placita #6 decided to cap sales at two pounds per person when he realized the stock on hand would not be enough for the number of people waiting in line.

Tempers flared when customers learned of the restriction on what has become a staple item in the local diet. Some openly criticized the inefficiency of the local government in supplying the average Cuban’s market basket. Even so, many returned home with no plantains at all.

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