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Mar 30, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- In communist Cuba, some customers are more equal than others, as a 40-year-old math teacher who was out shopping recently in Havana with his son discovered.
The pair passed a spanking new shop situated on the ground floor of a luxury hotel in the upmarket Miramar neighborhood.
But "we had barely put a foot inside when they told me it (payment) was in dollars," Michael, the teacher, who declined to give his surname, told AFP.
"Let's go, this isn't for us," he told his son, maki...
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