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HAVANA, September 3 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) - Noemí
García Herrera arrived in Havana after waiting for a week for
transportation in her native Guantánamo province. She plans to stay with
her daughter for some time to get some relief from an eye disorder she
contracted as a result of cooking with wood.
"Residents of Jamaica [her hometown] cook with any wood because there
is no kerosene, nor diesel oil, and even coke is not plentiful," said García.
In El Cristo, Santiago de Cuba province, people cook with wood and get
around in horse-drawn carts, according to local activists Sergio Landazuly and
Evelio Cosella.
María Elena Arredondo, of La Demajagua, a rural community 20
kilometers outside of Isle of Youth capital Nueva Gerona, said she cooks with
coke in spite of her visual impairment.
"The price of a can of coke goes up daily. Some time back it was 5
pesos, and now it’s 15, but we also pay another price, because we have to
travel 15 kilometers (about 10 miles) to the place where we can buy it,"
said Arredondo.
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