Cuban government cuts daily bread ration from 80g to 60g

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18 Sep 2024, 9:13 am

Cuba gets so much love for bravely standing up to the US, that news like this sort of gets buried.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-slashes-size-daily-bread-ration-ingredients-run-thin-2024-09-16/

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Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients run thin
By Reuters
September 17, 20242:44 PM EDTUpdated 19 hours ago



HAVANA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Cuba's communist-run government on Monday slashed by a quarter the weight of its subsidized ration of daily bread, the latest shortage to strain a decades-old subsidies scheme created by the late Fidel Castro.
The bread, one of a handful of still subsidized basic food products in Cuba, will be reduced from 80 grams to 60 grams (2.1 oz), or approximately the weight of an average cookie or a small bar of soap. Its price, too, was slightly reduced, to just under 1 peso, or 1/3 of a cent.

Still, many Cubans, who earn around 4648 pesos a month, or around $15, can scarcely afford to shop for more expensive bread on the private market, leaving them with few alternatives.
"We have to accept it, what else can we do?" Havana-resident Dolores Fernandez told Reuters while she stood outside a bakery on Monday. "There's no choice."
Cuba last week said it had run short of the wheat flour it needs to produce the bread, a predicament the government blames on the U.S. trade embargo, a complex web of restrictions that complicates Cuba's global financial transactions.


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