The Government of Cuba will announce on Thursday new measures to foreign currency stores They have been operating in the country since the end of 2019.
In the state space Round Table (at 6:30 p.m.) the ministers of Economy, Finance and Prices and Transportation, the first vice president of the Central Bank of Cuba and the First vice president of CIMEX will speak, the official site says Cubadebate.
At the moment the content of this new batch of measures is unknown, but even in the aforementioned medium, Cubans criticize that the stores are empty and ask that they take into account those who do not have relatives abroad, as well as the salary on the island.
“Please, the measures you are going to take think about the salary of the worker of this country, not that of the person who has family abroad”, “Oh God! And now what?” or “everything has been a hoax and a disappointment to customers” are some of the comments that are repeated in Cubadebate.
Those stores in foreign currencies or Freely Convertible Currency (MLC), as the regime calls them, opened in almost the entire country.
However, complaints about shortages arrive from Santa Clara, Las Tunas, Granma and many other places where the products disappeared shortly after opening, although they only allow purchases with dollars and other foreign currencies, but not in Cuban pesos ( CUP) or CUC.
A Cuban from Granma details that “only once in these stores did refrigerators go on sale and it was in December.” Another from Havana adds that in the one of 23 and 42 in Playa, Havana, “the only thing that there were were split of airs of the great and many heaters”, as well as expensive TVs.
“What will come next?” Says a Cuban from Pinar del Río, where the lines are kilometers to buy a refrigerator.
A Camagueian, meanwhile, said that since December he has money on the magnetic card to buy a refrigerator, but they do not reach that province. In this same case there is a citizen identified as Marta, but since November and to buy a small freezer.
Like these Cubans there are others many disappointed With these stores.
A Cuban also demanded “an apology and must publicly be self-critical because the supply has been chaos, the lines of people sleeping for days to buy a freezer.”
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