> Some Cubans depend on sugar water as food shortages bite / 36GJ9D8
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Some Cubans depend on sugar water as food shortages bite / 36GJ9D8
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Subsidized food, without which most Cubans would not eat at all, is becoming ever more scarce and expensive as the government, battling sanctions, struggles to pay for imports. Breads are smaller -- not even the size of an adult hand -- rice is rare, and oil and coffee are nowhere to be found.
"Some go to bed without eating anything, just water with sugar, if they have it," says 57-year-old Rosalia Terrero, who works at one of Havana's "bodegas," where subsidized food can be bought. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES