Households resort to wood shavings as fuel as Cuba’s energy and currency crises deepen, reporter says A Martí Noticias report said repeated power outages and shortages of liquefied gas have driven Cubans to burn wood shavings for cooking; charcoal costs cited at 3,000 pesos—higher than the 2,100-peso monthly minimum wage—and the parallel peso-dollar rate was reported near 1:500.

As Cuba's energy and currency crises deepen, families are forced to cook using wood shavings while grappling with staggering prices that exceed their monthly wages.

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