[Leica] [OM] IMGS: Buying Rice

[Nathan Wajsman]

These pictures (of which I like the second one best) illustrate the failure of the system. And the dual-exchange rate system was also typical in the bad old days in Eastern Europe.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 02 Mar 2015, at 15:36, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> PESO:
> 
> I took lots of photos of people lined up to buy rice in the government
> stores.  These are the last two:
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/image/159318869
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159318871
> 
> The most confusing thing about Cuba is the money.  There are two kinds,
> CUCs for tourists and CUPs for locals.  In the government stores, you could
> only use CUPs.  To ride the bici-taxis, the rate for tourists is 1 CUC and
> for locals it is 1 CUP.  It takes 12 CUPs to make 1 CUC.  Makes everything
> a little more fair, I guess.
> 
> C&C greatly appreciated.
> 
> Tina
> 
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