With Change in the Air, Cubans Speculate on Currency

HAVANA, Feb. 26 -- Cubans swamped currency exchange offices Monday and early Tuesday in a brief but intense speculative frenzy fueled by rumors that new President Raúl Castro would end the island's reviled dual currency system.
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Manuel Roig-Franzia

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