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FROM
CUBA
New ration books distributed in Cuba for
2005
HAVANA, Cuba, January 12 (Adrián
Leiva, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org) -
The Ministry of Internal Commerce distributed
new ration books to Cuban families at the
end of the year.
The document is necessary for people to
acquire certain basic products of a basket
determined by the government at subsidized
prices.
For starters, Havana residents will be
eligible to buy six pounds of rice, 20 ounces
of split peas, and five pounds of sugar,
according to the weekly Tribuna de La Habana.
The rest of the month's quota will probably
be distributed later in the month of January.
Going by the previous year's numbers, residents
expect it to consist of 11 ounces of fish,
eight eggs, one pound of chicken and half
a pound of something called "ground-up,
textured soy."
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