M.HERALD/Juan Tamayo :
"As Cuban ruler Raúl Castro slashes state subsidies to overcome an abysmal economic crisis, he's making daily life more expensive -- and implicitly accepting that the country's cradle-to-grave social safety net is no longer assured."
AND: "Hit especially hard have been retirees, the disabled, widows and others who live on fixed incomes, and the 40 percent of Cubans who don't receive remittances from relatives abroad and must rely on salaries that officially average a mere $20 per month."
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