CIEGO DE ÁVILA, July 27 (Juan Carlos González Leyva, FAPDH) – Self-employed workers in Las Tunas province, eastern Cuba, may sell natural drinks but not carbonated ones; similarly they may sell corn bread, but nothing made out of wheat flour. Yet self-employed residents of Guáimaro, 12 kilometers away in Camagüey province, may deal in wheat flour freely.

Local regulations are responsible for the apparent quirks in restrictions to the self-employed. Residents maintain that the increased restrictions are national policy, but that they are implemented here first because Las Tunas is an "experimental province."

Restrictions also extend to clothing sales; limiting the self-employed in the province to renting pedicabs and horse-drawn carriages and to selling natural drinks, peanuts and corn bread.

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