| 31. | Cubans without relatives in the United States and with no connections to tourism have long lived purely on Cuban pesos.
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| 32. | Officially, the Cuban peso remains pegged at a rate of one dollar per peso where it's rested for three decades.
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| 33. | Now 35, she sells small pizzas from her barred front porch for Cuban pesos while her 11-year-old daughter plays inside.
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| 34. | In 1993, Castro removed penalties for holding dollars, making the hated yanqui greenback legal tender along with the Cuban peso.
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| 35. | The sale of dollars through the exchange bureaus also appears intended to take excess amounts of Cuban pesos out of circulation.
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| 36. | The Celia S�nchez Memorial in Manzanillo also honors her name, and her face appears in the watermark on Cuban peso banknotes.
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| 37. | Produce is purchased at farmer's markets in Cuban pesos, yet another local currency that now trades at 26 to the dollar.
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| 38. | The government, however, keeps the dollars and pays the workers in Cuban pesos, using the inaccurate government exchange rate, Seifert said.
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| 39. | All legally available food was allotted by ration and purchased with Cuban pesos at state stores, where shelves were often nearly empty.
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| 40. | It said Cuba has " sufficient quantities of Convertible Cuban Peso coins to substitute the circulation of the United States coins ."
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