Houses in the historic centre sell for anywhere from 3.5 million pesos and up.
San Miguel's A shares, the exclusive domain of Filipinos, ended the week at 69 pesos ($1.46), up 5.4%.
I had to wait more than 20 minutes yesterday for a train". The pesos add up, considering that many workers must take a combination of subway and bus to get to their jobs, and pay separately for each leg of the trip.
Instead of a single 1-million-peso winner, up to 800,000 bottle caps marked 349 had been printed.
Managers at bigger foreign ventures complain of higher costs because of recent revaluations of the Cuban peso, stepped-up inspections by ministries, and changes to business rules following a decision to deprive state firms of autonomy over trade and finance.Foreign diplomats in Havana say that the crackdown on business is motivated by the official fear that it had become too successful.
For 50 pesos, participants get up to eight glasses of different wines.
The boy's tutor, Mazatzin, "earned millions of pesos by making up adverts for shampoo and fizzy drinks.
If you want to stay with the estancieros and gauchos, check in at the Torre Cristoforo Colombo Suites, with 160 one- and two-room furnished apartments with kitchenettes, at prices that start as low as 260 pesos and go up to 610 pesos, including taxes and breakfast.
Later, when the United States was desperate for elemental silver for the manufacture of electronics, he traveled to Mexico, bought up pesos, and sent railraod cars full of silver coins back across the border, which nearly caused the Mexican economy to collapse for lack of hard currency.
Instead of buying up pesos, Mexico let its money go into a freefall.
