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

By Financial Post - 8 months ago
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. The “libreta,” as Cubans know it, was launched in July 1963 […]

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