In other words the service and tourist folks live well, as do the storeowners who cater to the tourist trade. The havenots are those who are employed by the state and farm cooperatives. As a result several generations of a family are forced to share living quarters . Frequently young couples who desire a degree of privacy will spend the weekend in an inexpensive hotel. All food has been rationed since the revolution.
Meat is very expensive and thus out of the reach of most citizens.
A study recently completed compares the per capita food consumption in Latin American. Of eleven countries examined Mexico in 1995 enjoyed 3135 calories per day food intake and was rated number one. Cuba was the last on the list with 2291 calories per day. Each person is allowed 5 kg of rice per month and a similar amount of sugar. The main reason for this problem of food supplies is two-fold, an inefficient agricultural system and a scarcity of foreign exchange which makes it very difficult to purchase readily available food supplies from Latin America, Canada and Europe.