Cuba Resurrects Dollar-only Stores, A Symbol Of Inequality

Source: International Business Times

The shelves are often empty in Cuban government-run grocery stores that accept only payments in MLC, a virtual currency introduced in 2019 that has lost much of its value 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.