Like millions of other Cubans, Maria de los Angeles Pozo thinks back fondly to when a government ration book fed her family everything from hamburgers, fish and milk to chocolate and beer. People would even get cakes for birthdays and weddings.
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — María de los Ángeles Pozo used to get a little notebook laying out her family’s rations in Cuba’s subsidized neighborhood stores. They’d get everything from hamburgers and fish to chocolate, milk and beer. Cubans universally know it as the “libreta.” Launched in July 1963, the little ration
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Like millions of other Cubans, María de los Ángeles Pozo thinks back fondly to when a government ration book fed her family everything from hamburgers, fish and milk to chocolate and beer. People would even get cakes for birthdays and weddings. The “libreta,” as Cubans know it,
María de los Ángeles Pozo used to get a little notebook laying out her family’s rations in Cuba’s subsidized neighborhood stores
Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry
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