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Updated Feb. 26, 2024 at 6:30 p.m* HAVANA — A new milk shortage has hit Cuba this month, as the country struggles to secure milk for children due to a decades-old subsidies scheme created by the late Fidel Castro. Milk deliveries for children aged six months to two years were delayed this month, according to Betsy Diaz, minister of interior commerce. She promised deliveries would begin shortly in smaller quantities for priority groups. But the real news is that milk shortages are nothing new on the island nation. Children under seven and the elderly with medical diets don’t receive it with the…