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(MODEL RELEASED) Cuban families receive ration cards that in theory let them obtain all their food staples at astonishingly low, state-subsidized prices. In practice, the cards don't quite cover everything, so Cubans must venture into the vastly more expensive agromercados, open markets that sell products from the few government-sanctioned private farms and surpluses from cooperative farms that have fulfilled their state quotas. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 102).

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(MODEL RELEASED) Cuban families receive ration cards that in theory let them obtain all their food staples at astonishingly low, state-subsidized prices. In practice, the cards don't quite cover everything, so Cubans must venture into the vastly more expensive agromercados, open markets that sell products from the few government-sanctioned private farms and surpluses from cooperative farms that have fulfilled their state quotas. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 102).
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