HAVANA, October 3 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI / CubaNet) - At the renowned
Coppelia ice cream shop in central Havana, there are two classes of customers:
those who pay in dollars, and have access to the establishment's upper story and
several flavors of ice cream, and those who pay in pesos. These are confined to
the ground floor and often have the no-choice choice between one flavor and no
ice cream at all.
Andria Pérez, who lives in the province of Pinar del Río,
visited Havana September 23 and wanted to take her young son to taste Coppelia's
famous ice cream. After waiting in line for 2 hours and 45 minutes, they were
allowed into the shop's ground floor, where they learned that they could have
caramel ice cream. Since neither of them likes that flavor, Pérez decided
not to spend the money.
Before leaving, she was able to that the customers upstairs were able
to get strawberry and chocolate in addition to caramel.
"Unless you have dollars, you can buy almost nothing in this country,"
she said.
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