The designated president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, called the people “lazy,” and blamed them for the acute food shortage on the Island.
Through social networks, a video of the leader has circulated during his visit to the city of Baracoa, province of Guantánamo, where he stops to address the population, with whom he lives while some even hug him.
In his speech, Díaz-Canel took the opportunity to ask for the “cooperation” of the Cuban people in food production, stating that there is a lot of potential in the land, but that the people are the ones who do not work it.
“Until we produce the food we need, prices will not go down. There are no miracles here. And here there is enough land to produce food,” he declared.
The leader then suggested a controversial measure that has already been tried to be implemented several times: unpaid work, that people dedicate hours of their lives and heavy manual labor to growing and harvesting food without receiving absolutely anything in return, to provide everything to the state and that there is greater production.
“But we have to get to work, everyone work and help, and others help with volunteer work days as we have done at other times,” he indicated.
Later, in the same speech, Raúl Castro’s successor stated that what happens is that many of the citizens are “lazy,” who want everything for free and “don’t contribute anything” to the country.
“Because also, although it is a working town, we have several people who are lazy, who are disengaged from work, they do not contribute anything, they claim many rights, but they do not fulfill duties. So, it is a society where we all have to support,” he concluded.
Throughout this speech, Díaz-Canel ignored the fact that ordinary Cubans do not have the time and energy to work for the government for free, since many of them have work days of several hours or even two jobs to barely survive. with the minimum.
With these statements, the president exempted the State from responsibility for the food crisis, when farmers work at a forced pace, paying for inputs with their own resources, so that their crops are bought from them at a price well below their true value.
The food crisis in Cuba has already extended for several years, and has increased in the last decade, also increased by the pandemic that paralyzed work for a time and further reduced the Castro regime’s investment in the matter. Although the government has the resources to import food, it does not do so, and most of the resources are dedicated to tourism.
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