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Fish quota distributed in Santa Clara
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - April 21 (Javier Machado,
Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org)
- "Make it last, señora, because
those three little fishes have to last all
month," said one customer addressing
a woman who had just bought her quota of
fish for the month in a Santa Clara market.
The woman was complaining about the amount,
five ounces per person. Her three fish were
for a family of four.
"At least this time they don't come
with the head," said another woman
who was waiting in line, adding that in
previous occasions the fish had inedible
heads and they counted toward the allotted
weight.
The fish comes frozen from Chile.
This was the second distribution of food
for the month in the Santa Clara area. Previously
consumers had been able to buy chopped up
soy, one-half pound per person. At the beginning
of the month, the food distribution network
made available six eggs per person.
So far in April, the Ration Book shows
distributions, per person, of five pounds
of rice, 20 ounces of black beans, five
ounces of sugar, three-quarter pounds of
salt, and a small amount of pasta shaped
into elbows.
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