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Cuba opens foreign currency-only shops, ends tax on dollar

by Associated Press
| July 20, 2020 4:27 PM

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba opened shops Monday that accept only foreign currencies and eliminated a special tax on the U.S. dollar, deepening a process of collecting stronger currencies to face the country's economic crisis.

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