Right versus left

[James A. Landau]

According to a newspaper article today,
"For most anything else [in Cuba], there's the black market, known to
shoppers as buying "on the right" and to dealers as "the finger"---for what
suppliers wag threateningly at those who don't pay up for the merchandise."

I have been told that in the Soviet Union, similar situations were known as
"on the left".

Hmmm.

    - Jim Landau

ref: Thomas Ginsberg "Cubans Get Creative To Try To Get By" Philadelphia
Inquirer Monday March 11, 2002, page A1 with jump to A6.  quote was from
column 2 of page A6.