HAVANA — Cuba's Communist government extended rationing of food, clothes and household articles and restricted the sale of prized electrical goods today in a further sign the island is feeling the pinch of the disruption of Soviet imports.
The austerity moves signaled additional sacrifices for Cuba's long-suffering 10 million people, who despite free health care and education have endured rationing and shortages since the United States imposed an economic blockade after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.
