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René Alcair, of Habana Vieja, Cuba, pauses for a rare break while working on a sweltering summer day at the desk of a government-run bread dispensary in his neighborhood, where he has both baked and distributed bread for 11 years. A remaining outpost of the post-revolution rationing system, the dispensary distributes the allotted weekly amounts of bread rationed to registered residents of the neighborhood. Alcair marks down the amounts received in each person's paper government rations booklet, or libreta, as they come through each day. Extra bread can also be purchased for a few cents in the Cuban peso currency. Photo by Jen Klewitz

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René Alcair, of Habana Vieja, Cuba, pauses for a rare break while working on a sweltering summer day at the desk of a government-run bread dispensary in his neighborhood, where he has both baked and distributed bread for 11 years. A remaining outpost of the post-revolution rationing system, the dispensary distributes the allotted weekly amounts of bread rationed to registered residents of the neighborhood. Alcair marks down the amounts received in each person's paper government rations booklet, or libreta, as they come through each day. Extra bread can also be purchased for a few cents in the Cuban peso currency. Photo by Jen Klewitz