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Cash-strapped Cuba imposes cuts

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The Cuban government has imposed drastic cuts in imports and has ordered tough austerity measures as the global financial crisis starts to hit the communist island's state-run economy.

Cubans face cut-backs in electricity and public transport as well as shortages in the shops.

Michael Voss reports from Havana.

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