Juan Téllez Rodríguez

LAS TUNAS, January – Passengers in this eastern Cuban province wishing to travel to Havana face longer waits and higher black market prices than a few months ago due to the shrinking supply of train and bus tickets.

In Puerto Padre, for example, tickets are only sold on alternate days whereas before they were sold every day. In Vázquez, a smaller town and a later stop on the itinerary, only five tickets for the train and five for the bus are sold on alternate days.

Would-be travelers are reduced to trying to scrounge a ticket from someone who changed his mind, and then paying the going rate of 150 pesos, or about 230 around holidays.

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