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August 30, 2003

Food Rations, Baracoa, Cuba, 1998

Photograph by David Alan Harvey

"[Shoppers pick up the day's ration of bread]—one roll apiece. 'Rationing is the worst thing about Cuba these days,' says one of the many women with no hard currency to buy extra groceries at the well-stocked dollars-only stores."

—Text from "Cuba," June 1999, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Cuba," June 1999, National Geographic magazine)