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| Pam inside a local bodega (convenience store specializing in the distribution of rations). You may know that the vast majority of Cuban families rely, for their food intake, on the Libreta de Abastecimiento (literally, "Supplies booklet") distribution system, instated on March 12, 1962. Products available at a bodega vary and there are frequent shortages. Rations vary according to age and gender. For example, children below 7 years old are provided 1 liter of milk per day, as are the elderly, the ill, and pregnant women. Adults above 65 years are entitled to special allowances too. |
