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NEWS
Residents in Villa Clara unhappy with price increases.
SANTA CLARA, CUBA – February 12 (Guillermo Farinas Hernandez, Cubanacan
Press/Puenteinfocubamiami.org) - Last February 1st, residents in the central
province of Villa Clara showed their dissatisfaction due to the enforcement
of Resolution 5 and 6 of the Ministry of Cuban Internal Trade.
A group of independent journalists of this agency collected the views of the
population in different areas in Villa Clara, such as the Sandino Farm
Market, San Miguel, the parallel Market El Buen Viaje and the Bus Station.
Josefa Perez, a retiree in the education sector said: "I very much agree
with the price increase in alcoholic beverages because two of my marriages
ended due to alcohol. At the same time, I don’t understand why they
increased the price for eggs; it is the only food with proteins that is at
the reach of those who do not receive dollars.
Moreover, Barbaro Rodriguez Fraga a former combatant in Angola and a daily
consumer of alcohol beverages said: “They increased the price of the Rum
bottle from 60 pesos to 80 peso (national currency), now we cannot even get
drunk quietly in Cuba”.
Unfortunately, we all know that those who work in restaurants can not live
on their wages. They live with what they can steal from customer’s goods-
declared a doctor by the name of Orestes.
A sports trainer who just arrived from Venezuela by the name of Ines
said the alimentary problem in Cuba is not resolved with new decrees or
laws, the problem with be solved if Cubans were to be paid in a currency
with real value; so that their wages would raise to demand in the market.
"This is a vicious circle that has no end because if the government
increased the prices as I read in the Vanguardia newspaper, prices in the
“black market” will also soar and it will hurt the most vulnerable members
of the society ( the poor)”: said Dulce, a house wife who was interviewed.
For retired bus driver Pedro Machado the problem boils down to:
"The leaders of this country want to cover the sun with one finger; they
don’t want to accept that everything will be resolved when there are more
products to sell. There has to be an increase in supply and demand. "
Oscar Espinosa Chepe opined: " That we know, the resolutions have not been
implemented in Havana, we must study them in depth, but both achieved an
increase in the consumption of illegal alcoholic beverages, which attempts
to the health of consumers and the average wage with regard to 1989, which
has a purchasing power of only 25%, which will be much more diminished. "
The analyst and also independent journalist Espinosa Chepe concluded: “These
resolutions are a reflection of a broken system, the so- called Cuban
Revolution, which tries to resolve in an unfit manner the lack of production
of alimentary needs and services which is afflicting the society.”
Given from Santa Clara to the Information Bridge Cuba Miami by Guillermo
Farina Hernandez, Cubanacan Press for distribution. Translation by: Puente
Informativo Cuba Miami.
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