HAVANA - Cuba's state-run banks on Thursday were given permission to issue loans based on hard collateral, more than a half-century after pawnshops were banned on the communist-run island.
Fidel Castro abolished such businesses as part of a campaign against lending that also saw the elimination of private banks after he came to power in 1959 in a revolution.
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