The Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET) has informed its customers about the resumption of rationed sales of liquefied gas due to the arrival of a shipment of.
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On Jan. 1, the 62nd anniversary of Cuba’s revolutionary victory, the government is implementing a sweeping economic policy with reorganization of the monetary system to promote more efficiency and greater production. It comes at a crucial time when the U.S. blockade and the impacts of COVID-19 are creating deeper difficulties for the Cuban people.
Cuba’s socialist system enabled the people and government to weather the storm of 2020 and save lives in a way that U.S. capitalism could not and did not do. The most telling example is Cuba’s unified effort to overcome COVID. Only 145 people have died from the virus, just 1.2 percent of the per capita COVID death rate in the United States. And Cuba’s outstanding internationalist medical workers went to dozens of countries to help beleaguered peoples in their crisis.
Udder delight
A rare success in a decades-long quest for more and better dairy products
UBANS LOVE
tarta de tres leches (three-milk cake) and
alfajores. In a country where fresh milk is scarce, it is sold in the form of solid bars, a sugary way to get a bit of milk protein.
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But the bars do not stand up well to Cuba’s heat and humidity. Mould and yeast spot them, often well before the sell-by date. So it was cause for excitement when Adriana Rodríguez, a student of chemical biology, reported in her master’s thesis that she had solved the spoilage problem. Her research was prompted by complaints from shoppers at stores supplied by Granlac, a state-run dairy firm, which employs her. After two years of experimenting she concluded that the admixture of potassium sorbate, a common preservative, as 0.11% of the product’s weight would increase its shelf life from a promised seven days to 30. The new recipe also