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HAVANA, October 22 (Anna Rosa Veitía, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) -
There were no eggs in Havana October 19. After going a month without meat
products, the lines of people waiting to buy eggs were some of the longest yet,
and in the end they went without.
When they are available, eggs are sold at the rate of 8 per person per month
under the government’s rationing program. Many here say these eggs are not
of the same quality as those sold in the dollar stores.
In the markets selling in dollars, eggs also disappeared for a while. By the
time they showed up again, they had gone up in price, from 10 to 12 cents each.
At a butcher shop in central Havana, one frustrated customer said: "If
there are no eggs, let them sell the chickens. We have nothing to eat."
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