With the sale of four pounds of pork and one of beef per family unit, at a lower price than in the free market, the Cuban authorities they have exhorted the families of Cienfuegos to celebrate not so much the end of the year as another more “significant” date: the 65th anniversary of the triumph of Fidel Castro’s Revolution.
For the moment, in addition to pork – at 330 pesos per pound – and beef – with a “rate yet to be defined” – in the main municipality 10 pounds of rice will be delivered at 85 pesos each. In the rest of the municipalities, where the cereal will arrive at the beginning of the year, eight pounds will be sold for the same price.
The distribution of the grain is done when many wineries on the Island have not yet received, more than a week into the month, the December rice. In response to complaints from the population, the authorities assured that the product was guaranteed and that the delay was only due to logistical problems that would be solved as soon as possible, but families are still demanding the arrival of the cereal.
Also sold in the municipality of Cienfuegos is one kilogram (kg) of custard at 145 pesos, half a kg of fish croquette dough at 90 pesos, one kg of crackers at 450, one liter of bleach at 55, and one liter and medium of “superior quality” rum, at 550 pesos per unit.
The municipal authorities also pointed out that for days now, pork has been sold in state butcher shops, “without restriction on the number of animals slaughtered,” at 450 pesos per pound, a high price that they tried to hide by pointing out that “it will always be lower than private individuals have it.”
The municipal authorities also pointed out that for days now, pork has been sold in state butcher shops, “without restriction on the number of animals slaughtered,” at 450 pesos per pound.
For the agricultural fairs, which will be held in the councils of Cienfuegos and Calzada de Dolores on the 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th, officials assured that some 14,600 quintals of food, vegetables, fruits, grains and vegetables in the last two days.
After negotiating with the owners of MSMEs and cooperatives the price of taxes, transportation and leasing of spaces, the provincial government also managed to get several of these businesses to offer at “lower prices” an assortment of products, including ice cream. , yogurt, chicken, oil and bags of candy. The magnitude of the cost decline, however, was not clarified.
Other groups benefiting from the Christmas offers will be the 1,473 vulnerable families in the territory, who, according to the authorities, “will be subsidized, so that they will not have to pay a single cent for pork, whose payment will be assumed by the budget of the Social care”. It was not mentioned, however, whether they will have to pay the same amount of money as the rest of the population for other products.
Pregnant women will also have a differentiated package, which includes cartons of 30 units of quail eggs (60 pesos), creole eggs (240) and white eggs (66), as well as two kg of fish (540), one kg of sausage (180 ), one kg of croquette dough (240), one gallon of mango jam (330) and two soaps (25).
“The medical guards, nursing homes, the psychiatric hospital and other health units, in addition to the family care system and the children’s home without filial protection” will also have facilities to guarantee the “end of the year dinners,” they stated. The authorities.
Other provinces, such as Villa Clara, have also announced the start of food sales for the end of the year, with other options such as a pound of national beans at 270 pesos and another imported one, at 335, which, in addition to being insufficient, have prices very high.
Only the purchase of the products offered in the municipality of Cienfuegos by the booklet for a family unit adds up to 3,605 pesos – not counting beef with an undefined price –, 1,405 pesos more than the monthly minimum wage.
Judging by these figures, the Cuban New Year’s Eve dinners will be held, like every 12 months, in two very opposite contexts: that of those who have family abroad who can help fill the table and that of those who can only pay from your pocket.
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