Heartbreak: Cuba Running Out of Toilet Paper

Maybe Castro admirer Michael Moore can send a day's worth of his supply down for his buds. That'll cover them for a month.

Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said on Friday.

Officials said they were lowering the prices of 24 basic goods to help Cubans get through the difficulties provoked in part by the global financial crisis and three destructive hurricanes that struck the island last year.

Cuba's financial reserves have been depleted by increased spending for imports and reduced export income, which has forced the communist-led government to take extraordinary measures to keep the economy afloat.

"The corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper," an official with state conglomerate Cimex said on state-run Radio Rebelde.

See how so many on the left point to the joys of Cuba's health-care system, can it be long until we're urged to ration our own supply of toilet paper?

Sheryl Crow was unavailable for comment.