Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald
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HAVANA--The Havana money changer has his regulars: Cubans who want to travel abroad. American visitors. And, increasingly, Cubans who want to buy U.S. greenbacks and hold on to them.
“The dollar is backed by something. It doesn’t lose its value,” says the money changer, Miguel, who declined to give his last name because freelance money-changing isn’t legal in Cuba. He’s Cuban but lives in Mexico and frequently ferries cash and goods between Mexico and the island.
