Fri Nov 13, 2:25 PM ET

People buy food at Havana's main "Cuatro Caminos" market November 13, 2009. Peas and potatoes have become the harbingers of change in Cuba as President Raul Castro chips away at some of the Cuban revolution's most hallowed social programs, without a word, the two vegetables were removed this month from the subsidized food ration Cubans have received since 1963 and prices shot up in what people fear was a glimpse of the future. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA SOCIETY FOOD BUSINESS)

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