Getting pork in Cuba has been a very difficult task in recent years, but it seems that 2024 will be the worst of all due to the economic crisis that is plaguing the country and the rampant inflation that has left the price of this product. In the clouds.
According to the independent media The touchAlthough pork is an essential part of the Cuban diet, national production levels have fallen so low that a pound of steak is being priced at more than 1,000 Cuban pesos (CUP), half of what an ordinary Cuban earns. in a whole month.
The prices shared by the independent media were collected in various supply and demand markets in Havana, so no one in the capital will escape paying these exorbitant prices if they want to put some pork on the table.
According to the price publication, the value of a pound of “clean” steak cut meat is 1,047 CUP, but this rises to 1,200 CUP depending on the availability of the product or the place where it is being sold.
The figure, which is already scandalous, gets worse when you take into account that, while the minimum wage in Cuba is 2,100 CUP, and 70% of Cuban retirees only earn 1,528 CUP per month, so they would have to spend almost 80% of their monthly income if they wanted to buy a pound of the scarce product.
As expected, the prices published by the independent media generated discontent among Internet users, who confirmed the precarious situation they have been in for months.
“Here in the city of Holguín the price of boneless pork is sold at 1,000 pesos in MSMEs and 900 in the Garayalde market. We are screwed” and “The prices there are absurd. I am sure that thousands of Cubans who live on a state salary cannot pay a single pound.”
Others complained about the current situation of the Island, which is going through the worst economic crisis in its history, even surpassing the misery experienced during the so-called Special Period in the 90s.
“Hunger needs to increase much more and ignorance needs to decrease, because I have no idea where we get so much resistance from. They are going to have to prop us up to stay standing…”; “How horrible” and “The current came and the water left. Living in the great earthly paradise that they promised us,” were some of the comments made.
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