People queue to pick up products, some bought online, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in downtown Havana, Cuba. — Reuters
HAVANA: The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting growth in inequality in Communist Cuba as worsening shortages force most citizens to spend hours in line to purchase basic goods while the better-off are shopping online.
The disruption from the pandemic has plunged Cuba into its worst economic crisis since the fall of its former benefactor, the Soviet Union in the 1990s, but economic liberalization over the past three decades means not all Cubans are equally affected.
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