SANTIAGO, Cuba. – Only three days to the end of the year, Magalis has not found anything for dinner on 31 with his family. Although Songo is the Maya, he has had to travel several times to the city of Santiago de Cuba to see if he finds something that fits his budget.
“I have not been able to buy the meat, nor the salad. So far, yam is the only thing I have insurance, and what discourages me the most is that the streets are full of people in the same as me, ”he said.
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that it would only sell 8,000 pigs by the end of the year, which would be distributed in agricultural fairs around the island, to try to meet the demand of the population, as much as possible.
“On the 24th I think they took a piece of meat to the processing center and in the afternoon they took chicken, but I couldn’t buy because there was a terrible slaughter. Since that day they have not taken anything else, ”Magalis added.
The option that people have left is to buy from the self-employed, but this option is far from the possibilities of the majority. Currently, individuals have the ordinary pig pound at 25 and 30 pesos and the boneless at 35 and 40 pesos, but these prices are not yet capped, a Songo-Mayan seller told CubaNet.
“People who prepare, because from now until Tuesday 31 the price of meat could rise a little more. We are buying the pigs too expensive and we have to sell them equally expensive because otherwise it does not give us the bill, ”he said.
According to the self-employed, people who raise pigs at home, sell them on this date to raise the price more.
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“I myself have had to buy the pound of pig standing at 17 pesos when it is normally at 12 and 13 pesos,” the man concluded.
With respect to salads, individuals have a pound of medium tomatoes at 15 pesos and large ones at 20. The pound of cabbage or cabbage is 8 pesos and white onion at 20 pesos for 4 or 5 units. The cheapest is the cucumber, which is around 3 or 5 pesos a pound, all this in the municipality of Songo la Maya, because everything is more expensive in the city.
CubaNet tried to take photos of the products, but sellers refused for fear of reprisals.
“The main arteries of Santiago de Cuba are burning.” This was expressed by Ibernalis, who has not been able to buy the cider and the Christmas tree that he loved so much to decorate his house.
“Of the trees I saw in the stores on Enramadas Street, the cheapest one costs 40 CUC and no ornaments. The cider bottle that used to cost 2.90 CUC now rose to 4.50 and up to 5.00 CUC in state stores, ”he claimed.
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Meanwhile, the merolicos trade the cider at 6.00 and 7.00 CUC the bottle. However, medium-sized Christmas trees cost up to 40 CUC with all their ornaments, at these levels, below the retail network.
“It is unbearable. It takes you half an hour to go from one store to the other because of the amount of people on the street, and for pleasure, because you don’t find almost anything, ”said the woman.
On the other hand, yesterday, local media announced the sale-rationed-of beers in different parts of the city as of Friday. The maximum that can be purchased will be five units per person at 25 pesos per unit.
Although from the beginning of this month and until today there had been a shortage of beers in the state stores of Santiago, especially the defendant Cristal, individuals have been selling them at 30 and 35 pesos, although it is only of national production.
Since last July, the average salary in Cuba was “fixed” at 1,067 pesos, equivalent to about 42.6 CUC, after the Cuban president Miguel Díaz Canel announced the salary increase to the budgeted sector.
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