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HAVANA, April 17 (José Antonio Fornaris, Cuba- Verdad /
www.cubanet.org) The sale of used clothing in Cuban pesos will be abolished
starting April 30, according to reliable sources here.
Clerks at the La Moda store, in central Havana attributed the measure to
Minister of Interior Commerce Bárbara Castillo.
For four years, used clothing has been sold in Havana, at prices depending
on a classification between first, second, or third quality. A man’s shirt,
for example, would sell for between 15 and 55 pesos.
In dollars, the same shirt would sell for between 1.10 and 2.55, whereas a
new shirt would sell for over 6 dollars.
Hundreds work in the peso used clothing stores, most of them women. So far,
they haven’t been told what will happen to them.
"We don’t know whether we will have a job, or whether we’ll
be re-assigned to some other government job," said one of them.
Consumers haven’t been informed that their pesos will no longer buy
used clothing.
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