Cuban government says a newsprint shortage is forcing at least six state-run newspapers to cut back on pages and circulation days.
n government says a newsprint shortage is forcing at least six state-run newspapers to cut back on pages and circulation days in a potent sign of the cash shortage confronting the island.
Granma attributed the change to "difficulties in the availability of newsprint in the country," without providing details. Cuba has imported newsprint fromin recent years and the government has been suffering cash-flow problems forcing cutbacks in a wide range of imported products. The last major cutback in newsprint was during the "special period" of shortages and hardships that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. Cuba today appears far from a new "special period" but the island has been suffering increasingly frequent and long-lasting shortages of basic products including flour, cooking oil, chicken and eggs, all blamed on a shortage of hard currency.
Nonetheless, in many parts of Cuba, state-run stores only stock goods like chicken or flour a few days a week, at most, and when those products appear, long lines form almost instantly outside the store, disappearing only when the product has been cleared off the shelves.
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