Are Cuban Lives Better Because We Can Pay for Things With Both Currencies?
Category: WORLDPOST
In a society with such great economic distortions, paper money has lost the capacity to express the value of merchandise. The illegal market, the massive inflow of remittances, the diversion of resources and the invisible capital of one's political standing, completely alter the valuation of each product.
By Yoani Sanchez, ContributorPublisher of 14ymedio, independent newspaper in Cuba, 2014-09-22