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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

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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, was launched in July 1963 and became one of the pillars of the island’s socialist system, helping people through crises including the cutbacks in Soviet aid that led to the 1990s deprivation known as the “Special Period.”

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

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,

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

María de los Ángeles Pozo used to get a little notebook laying out her family’s rations in Cuba’s subsidized neighborhood stores

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

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, was launched in July 1963 and became one of the pillars of the island’s socialist system, helping people through crises…

1 month ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

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 book became one of the pillars of the island’s socialist system. That system has been undergoing a deep ec…

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

HAVANA (AP) -- 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.

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

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