“I was once a teacher, but now I sell coffee with milk on the corner. It is the only job I can get. I make about 500 or 600 pesos a day, but that is not enough. It costs 200 pesos for a pound of rice and 1500 pesos for a carton of eggs. Everything is more expensive. Cubans aren’t making enough money, but we are trying to make it.’
Love
Havana, Cuba
($1 is about 150 pesos. These stories are from my trip to Cuba in early January.)
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