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Fri Aug 7, 3:00 pm ET
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said on Friday.
Officials said they were lowering the prices of 24 basic goods to help Cubans get through the difficulties provoked in part by the global financial crisis and three destructive hurricanes that struck the island last year.
Cuba's financial reserves have been depleted by increased spending for imports and reduced export income, which has forced the communist-led government to take extraordinary measures to keep the economy afloat.
"The corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper," an official with state conglomerate Cimex said on state-run Radio Rebelde.
The shipment will enable the state-run company "to supply this demand that today is presenting problems," he said.
Cuba both imports toilet paper and produces its own, but does not currently have enough raw materials to make it, he said.
But wait! The WHO said they have better health care! :lol:
As long as they wash their hands good, what does toilet paper have to do with health care?
CholeraAs long as they wash their hands good, what does toilet paper have to do with health care?
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:doh Something smells in Cuba. Good thing they have palm leaves. Anyone have ideas for a solution to this problem?
Cholera
Hepatitis
Dysentery
Other than that, not too much.
:dohAll that can be prevented just by washing your hands.
So you've had to take a dump in an outhouse too, I see.We'll send them our old Sears catalogs.
Anyone have ideas for a solution to this problem?
Raul Castro, who replaced his ailing older brother Fidel Castro as president last year, also has complained that Cuba's productivity is too low.
He has taken various steps to boost output, including putting more state-owned land in private hands and pushing for salaries to be based on productivity.
Smells sorta like ... CAPITALISM! Who'd have thunk it!I don't, but it sounds like Raul does:
:rofl
Another victory for communism.
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:doh Something smells in Cuba. Good thing they have palm leaves. Anyone have ideas for a solution to this problem?
All that can be prevented just by washing your hands.
Basic sanitation has nothing to do with health care?
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:doh Something smells in Cuba. Good thing they have palm leaves. Anyone have ideas for a solution to this problem?
Has it occurred to people like you that it's possible to not use health care and still be sanitary? Not only that, that it's possible to be MORE sanitary without using toilet paper?
Geeze, the ignorance of people. Do you think the entire world uses toilet paper?
:doh Something smells in Cuba. Good thing they have palm leaves. Anyone have ideas for a solution to this problem?
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