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	<title><![CDATA[Forbidden To Buy Or Sell, Creative Cubans "Trade" Their Houses]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yoani-sanchez/forbidden-to-buy-or-sell_b_240507.html</url>
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<p>The lady holds a sign that reads, "To trade: house in Central Havana. Needed: two apartments in Cerro." Starting very early she goes to a park in the city hoping to find someone interested in her offer of an exchange. She's spent three years in this search, because exchanging one property for two is extremely complicated in today's Cuba. She will have to find someone who wants to live together in a single dwelling,...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-07-20T11:36:00-04:00</date_published>
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