Cuba struggles to shore up subsidized milk supply for children


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  • Saturday, 17 Feb 2024

FILE PHOTO: Helpers fill bottles with milk to be distributed among people in need at a soup kitchen run by religious group Quisicuaba that is serving a growing number of Cubans struggling to make ends meet amid economic crisis, in Havana, Cuba January 15, 2024. REUTERS/Yander Zamora/File Photo

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is struggling to secure enough milk for children, a minister said, in the latest shortage putting strain on a decades-old subsidies scheme created by the late Fidel Castro.

Milk deliveries for children aged 6 months to 2 years had been delayed this month, minister of interior commerce, Betsy Diaz, said late on Thursday, though she promised deliveries would begin shortly in smaller quantities for priority groups.

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