school uniforms for cuban students have a market more than 60 miles way
by：Collarblend Uniform
2020-03-01
MIAMI (AP)
-At the Dollarazo discount store in Miami, a row of red-
Wine-colored pants, shorts, and jumpers are a customer\'s favorite-
Almost a duplicate of the Cuban school uniform.
\"Customers will ask for it,\" said Orestes Canales, manager . \".
So we brought it.
\"Every year, thousands of school uniforms sold by discount capitalists in Miami are brought to communist island by children from Cuban schools.
The Cuban government provides only one or two sets of school uniforms for each child each year, buys and returns them to Cuba for relatives abroad, and makes an additional school uniform.
Even though there are five in Washington
Cuba imposed a ten-year embargo and the economic ties between the two families remained close.
\"There\'s an old joke in Cuba,\" says Graciella Cruz . \"
Professor of History, Atlantic University, Florida.
\"What do you need to do in Cuba to be happy?
\"Response:\" family members abroad.
\"He sells about 1,000 Cuban school uniforms a year, and the same company owns a nearby store,\" says Canales, Nooo Que Barato!
Or \"damn it, that\'s too cheap ! \"
\"Sell thousands more. For $4.
99. customers can purchase copies of trousers used by Cuban primary school students. Ninety-
Bought a must-have collar white shirt for nine cents.
One recent afternoon, concert lighting technician Roberto Sargado was at \"Nooo Que Barato!
\"As children, they will get dirty,\" said Sargado, 44 . \".
\"And the family can\'t afford to wash every day.
Serafin Blanco, the owner of the two discount stores, said he has been selling burgendi primary school uniforms in Cuba and occasionally a second type of mustard --
Color for at least 10 years.
He buys uniforms from the United States. S.
Companies that produce color-like clothing and sell it together with other school supplies and items purchased at auction.
Inside \"Damn it, it\'s cheap!
The refurbished laptop costs $150 and the backpack costs $10.
For every $100 a customer gets a free luggage bag to ship the item.
\"We have everything for Cuba!
The store claims in many TV and radio advertisements. A micro-
Miami\'s economic development caters to Cuba.
Americans who often send clothes and food to relatives on the island.
This market has grown over the past decade, with an average of more than 30,000 Cubans leaving each year since 2002.
Many of them have maintained close relations with relatives in Cuba.
In an enclave like Hialeah and Little Havana, the discount shop is packed with everything the family may need: shoes, underwear, baby clothes, silverware, coffee machines, and even mosquito nets.
There are Cuban travel agencies and shipping services on the streets.
The Cuban government imposed stricter restrictions on the number of products allowed to enter and increased tariffs on Monday, and families in Miami said it would hurt their Cuban relatives.
The sale of uniforms in Cuba resonated because, in some respects, it was a symbol of the revolution, and the vast majority of the exiled population strongly opposed the revolution.
Education has been a priority for the Cuban Communist government since the beginning of the 1959 revolution.
Volunteers were sent across the island to improve the poor literacy rate in the country.
At that time, about 25% of Cubans were illiterate.
Today, according to UNESCO, Cuba\'s youth literacy rate is 100%, one of the few international organizations with Cuban education data.
But resources may be scarce, from books to uniforms.
In Havana, several parents recently on the unified shuttle day complained that they were getting too little.
Orieta Diez, a 33-year-old optometrist, said: \"For me, ideally they will have uniforms and everyone can buy them as they like . \"year-old daughter.
\"I can\'t go home from work every day to wash and iron.
I need five shirts this week.
The only size she can buy for her daughter is too big and has to be customized, she said.
The 28-year-old Gisela Garcia, the mother of two children, said she received extra uniforms from her friends when the children grew up.
In Miami, the 43-year-old Joseph Espinosa was well aware of the difficulties her family faced on the island to ensure that their children went to school in decent school uniforms.
She bought the red one for several years.
The school uniform at the burgendi Primary School, as well as the backpacks, pencils and crayons of the two nieces.
She said: \"Everything they need to go to school, you need to buy it here.
\"Follow us on twitter.
We can see it on facebook.
-At the Dollarazo discount store in Miami, a row of red-
Wine-colored pants, shorts, and jumpers are a customer\'s favorite-
Almost a duplicate of the Cuban school uniform.
\"Customers will ask for it,\" said Orestes Canales, manager . \".
So we brought it.
\"Every year, thousands of school uniforms sold by discount capitalists in Miami are brought to communist island by children from Cuban schools.
The Cuban government provides only one or two sets of school uniforms for each child each year, buys and returns them to Cuba for relatives abroad, and makes an additional school uniform.
Even though there are five in Washington
Cuba imposed a ten-year embargo and the economic ties between the two families remained close.
\"There\'s an old joke in Cuba,\" says Graciella Cruz . \"
Professor of History, Atlantic University, Florida.
\"What do you need to do in Cuba to be happy?
\"Response:\" family members abroad.
\"He sells about 1,000 Cuban school uniforms a year, and the same company owns a nearby store,\" says Canales, Nooo Que Barato!
Or \"damn it, that\'s too cheap ! \"
\"Sell thousands more. For $4.
99. customers can purchase copies of trousers used by Cuban primary school students. Ninety-
Bought a must-have collar white shirt for nine cents.
One recent afternoon, concert lighting technician Roberto Sargado was at \"Nooo Que Barato!
\"As children, they will get dirty,\" said Sargado, 44 . \".
\"And the family can\'t afford to wash every day.
Serafin Blanco, the owner of the two discount stores, said he has been selling burgendi primary school uniforms in Cuba and occasionally a second type of mustard --
Color for at least 10 years.
He buys uniforms from the United States. S.
Companies that produce color-like clothing and sell it together with other school supplies and items purchased at auction.
Inside \"Damn it, it\'s cheap!
The refurbished laptop costs $150 and the backpack costs $10.
For every $100 a customer gets a free luggage bag to ship the item.
\"We have everything for Cuba!
The store claims in many TV and radio advertisements. A micro-
Miami\'s economic development caters to Cuba.
Americans who often send clothes and food to relatives on the island.
This market has grown over the past decade, with an average of more than 30,000 Cubans leaving each year since 2002.
Many of them have maintained close relations with relatives in Cuba.
In an enclave like Hialeah and Little Havana, the discount shop is packed with everything the family may need: shoes, underwear, baby clothes, silverware, coffee machines, and even mosquito nets.
There are Cuban travel agencies and shipping services on the streets.
The Cuban government imposed stricter restrictions on the number of products allowed to enter and increased tariffs on Monday, and families in Miami said it would hurt their Cuban relatives.
The sale of uniforms in Cuba resonated because, in some respects, it was a symbol of the revolution, and the vast majority of the exiled population strongly opposed the revolution.
Education has been a priority for the Cuban Communist government since the beginning of the 1959 revolution.
Volunteers were sent across the island to improve the poor literacy rate in the country.
At that time, about 25% of Cubans were illiterate.
Today, according to UNESCO, Cuba\'s youth literacy rate is 100%, one of the few international organizations with Cuban education data.
But resources may be scarce, from books to uniforms.
In Havana, several parents recently on the unified shuttle day complained that they were getting too little.
Orieta Diez, a 33-year-old optometrist, said: \"For me, ideally they will have uniforms and everyone can buy them as they like . \"year-old daughter.
\"I can\'t go home from work every day to wash and iron.
I need five shirts this week.
The only size she can buy for her daughter is too big and has to be customized, she said.
The 28-year-old Gisela Garcia, the mother of two children, said she received extra uniforms from her friends when the children grew up.
In Miami, the 43-year-old Joseph Espinosa was well aware of the difficulties her family faced on the island to ensure that their children went to school in decent school uniforms.
She bought the red one for several years.
The school uniform at the burgendi Primary School, as well as the backpacks, pencils and crayons of the two nieces.
She said: \"Everything they need to go to school, you need to buy it here.
\"Follow us on twitter.
We can see it on facebook.
