Cuba's pocket-sized government ration book has been circulating for more than six decades. It used to offer a bounty of products, but that offer has dwindled in recent years as the island's economic crisis deepened. The shelves of one state-run store in the Cuban capital, Havana, were once laden with goods, but now it sits nearly empty with barely anything to offer its 5,000 clients who depend on the store for subsidized food. (AP video by Ariel Fernández and Milexsy Durán) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home
Cubans struggle to survive on pocket-sized government ration book as products dwindle
2 std vor
Cuba's pocket-sized government ration book has been circulating for more than six decades. It used to offer a bounty of products, but that offer has dwindled in recent years as the island's economic crisis deepened. The shelves of one state-run store in the Cuban capital, Havana, were once laden with goods, but now it sits nearly empty with barely anything to offer its 5,000 clients who depend on the store for subsidized food. (AP video by Ariel Fernández and Milexsy Durán) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home
