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FROM
CUBA
Closing of dollar stores engenders uncertainty
in the population
HOLGUÍN, May 13 (Juan Carlos Garcell,
APLO / www.cubanet) - The sudden and unexpected
closing of the dollar stores this week and
the prohibition on sales of all but food
and personal hygiene products engendered
uncertainty among the population, who responded
by lining up outside the stores to buy what
they could while they still could.
The stores that sell exclusively in dollars,
known in Cuba as the "shoppings,"
were all under police custody as of Tuesday
morning after the Monday evening government
announcement.
People waiting in line typically said they
were trying to buy soap, detergent, deodorant
and food before they became unavailable
and before prices went up.
In the mining community of Moa, in Holguín
province, the stores were limiting sales
to either two or five bars of soap per person,
two packs of detergent and two tubes of
deodorant.
A number of products are only available
in dollar stores, among them detergent,
deodorant, towels, bed sheets and women's
lingerie.
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