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FROM
CUBA
Consumers who haven't paid for rice cookers
will be fined
HAVANA, Cuba - June 9 (Ahmed Rodríguez
Albacia, Jóvenes sin Censura / www.cubanet.org)
- Consumers who bought one of the rice cookers
the government put on sale three months
ago and who haven't paid for them in full
will be fined, according to signs posted
in retail establishments in San Miguel del
Padrón municipality in Havana.
"All those citizens who haven't paid
for the rice cooker will be fined,"
read the sign at the grocery store in Delicias
del Diezmero.
The rice cookers were pushed by the government
as an energy-saving measure and offered
to consumers on terms.
Evidently some haven't been able to make
all the payments, although at the time Cuban
President Castro said the cookers would
basically pay for themselves with energy
savings and an increase in salaries that
he announced at the same time.
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