More than five thousand nuclei disappeared from the purchasing system in Havana

A total of5,300 families, Almost 20 percent of those registered in the capital disappeared in recent days from the automated purchasing system implemented in Havana to sell products sold in the CIMEX and Caribe store chains.

The nuclei that disappeared from the second cycle of product sales were not included in the digitized list to issue purchase tickets and more than 2,000 consumers reported the fact, as revealed in a note fromHavana Tribune.

The largest number of affected people were concentrated in Cerro and Diez de Octubre and, although to a lesser extent, also La Habana Vieja, Centro Habana and Regla, were unable to buy on the dates corresponding to the second cycle.

The digitization of the cores was done through the system of the company clarify responsibilities in this adverse situation that occurred in the capital", without specifying why such an omission occurred.

After ensuring that the failure had already been identified and promising its resolution, officialsannounced that consumers affected by this error could buy their products from the second cycle in the third, purchasing them together.

In several municipalities, such as Plaza de la Revolución, Boyeros, Marianao, La Lisa, the two cycles were already being sold together, the "lost" one and the corresponding one.

The error that has left the scarce food that the government sells to the population without occurs days after the Havana government announced thesystem review to make sure there are no deaths, prisoners and people outside the country in the supply book.

The Tiendas Caribe chain and the provincial directorate of commerce inspected the consumer registry to verify the real nuclei that exist, since there were people who had more than one notebook, deceased more than five years ago who were still listed as consumers, other cases that They had left the country.

In the midst of the general crisis, the regime implemented the new system of regulated sales of some products in national currency in CIMEX and Caribe stores,to avoid queues and overbuying by resellers, but the complaints of the population and the constant failure of this initiative show that it is not infallible.

At the end of December, a report on official television in Havana showed the population's dissatisfaction with the complex organizational framework.

Users criticized the instability in the assortments and the difference between the stores, some stocked and others almost empty, and the incomplete supply of the five products to which they are entitled once a month, which forces them togo to the store several times.