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On Monday, Yahoo News<\/a> reported that Cuba has cut the size of its daily breat ration because of a shortage of ingredients.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“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.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Caribbean island nation is suffering from extreme shortages of food, fuel and medicine, shortfalls that have primed a record-breaking exodus of its citizens to the nearby United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cuba’s ration book, or “libreta,” as it is known among island residents, was once considered a hallmark of Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, providing a range of deeply-discounted products to all Cubans, including bread, fish, meat, milk, and cleaning and toiletry supplies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is one example of what happens when the government controls the price of food. Price controls create scarcity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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