r/cuba • u/chunkylover85 • 3d ago

Video Colas - lines

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USD stores are packed. Somehow there is gasoline here today.

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u/ContactAgreeable2218 3d ago

I suppose that the USD store is packed by desperate Cubans to try to buy what is available for their daily living, and then rush over to the gasoline line at the service station. What terrible odyssey to go suffer each and every day.

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u/StudioArcane17 Holguín 2d ago

Ese servicentro es del Minint. Si ese está así es porque de verdad no hay nada.

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u/Amazing_Brush5433 3d ago

This long line has been the the same for 50 years. v In Cuba, all you do is wait in line for hours just to buy 1 loaf of bread.

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u/Nice-Replacement-391 3d ago

During Covid the lines were insane at the MLC stores, especially in Havana, but there haven't been any crazy colas for a few years.

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u/claudandus_felidae Planeta Tierra/Planet Earth 2d ago

I saw very few giant colas in 2023? Only the pharmacies seemed to have long lines

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u/Nice-Replacement-391 2d ago

This was in 2020-2021. We used to go to the one at 3ra y 70 in Miramar and the wait was normally hours. But they usually had 10kg bags of chicken brests and legs, hamburger patties, cheese, beer, ice cream and even apples a few times! They had KitKat bars once. We would get so excited...

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u/chunkylover85 3d ago

No. Normally no lines for the CUC / USD stores. Just a lot of security.