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To: FJB who wrote (926703)	3/18/2016 1:57:40 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Recommended By Tenchusatsu TideGlider work4ever Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576663

Every Cuban family registers with a local supply store, where they can use a libreta or ration book. This typically provides about 10kg (22lb) of rice, 6kg of white sugar, 2kg of brown sugar, 250 millilitres (1 cup) of cooking oil, five eggs and a packet of coffee per person per month, along with 2kg of meat (usually chicken) every 10 days, a bun every day and a bag of salt every three months. Milk is provided for pregnant women and children under seven years of age. The basic libreta products are guaranteed, but they are not enough – so people often have to travel to several places on several different days to make up the shortfall. Michael Moore should write a book about this paradise. And this one: *Chavez's daughter Maria had some $4.2 billion in bank accounts in the United States and Andorra.* How did she happen to come into that kind of money? ..... Alejandro Andrade, who served as Venezuela’s treasury minister from 2007 to 2010 and was reportedly a close associate of Chavez, was discovered to have $11.2billion in his name sitting in HSBC accounts in Switzerland. . . .