Actress Lynn Cruz criticizes price increases due to the “ordering task”: In Cuba it is increasingly difficult to make a living

Cuban actressLynn Cruz This Saturday on social networks, he criticized the government's decision to increase prices in the country when there is a crisis affecting the vast majority of families, calling it a “disproportionate” and “wrong” measure.

“Cuba is on the limit. “Many Cubans cannot pay their bills,” Cruz laments in a post from Facebook, where he has shown his disagreement on other occasions.as he did recently when expressing his feeling of rejection in the face of acts of repudiation.

“Raising the price of services, food, medicine, in the midst of a panorama where uncertainty reigns and where it is increasingly difficult to make a living, has been an absolutely disproportionate and wrong measure,” he concluded.

From the first day of 2021, the Cuban government launched its so-called “ordering task” which implied, along with a salary increase of up to 2,100 pesos the minimum wage, a considerable increase in basic goods and services. Several costs even had to be reconsidered after their public mention,due to pressure from civil society.

Some days ago,Cuban actress Ariana Álvarez He announced his surprise at the gas bill he received this month and demanded an explanation for it. “IS THE INCREASE in the bill 5 times or 40 times more??...I need an explanation,” he wrote.

Even the official media, given to defending tooth and nail the initiatives of the Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro administration, have reflectedthe unfavorable opinion of the people regarding economic measures that take place in a context worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.

“The system does defend social justice, but not with egalitarianism. It does not defend social justice by subsidizing everything; "It defends it by protecting the most helpless, the most vulnerable and protecting those who need it,"the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel stressed in a meeting of the Council of Ministers.

The economic crisis not only affects the prices of food and basic necessities, but also represents a significant shortage of them. The so-called “ordering” also implies monetary unification, with the progressive disappearance of the Cuban convertible peso CUC.

“March can be a month of consolidation, of getting closer to the order in its purest, most transparent expression,” Díaz-Canel said at the aforementioned meeting. “We have to work hard and learn lessons, because we are going to continue experiencing complex processes like this in these times, especially in the economic sphere,” he added.

Meanwhile, the complaints continue to be repeated constantly and many Cubans consider that, despite the increase,salaries are not enough to cover, not even half, the expenses of an entire month.