Government organizes agricultural fairs "in greeting to May Day"

In recent days, the Cuban government has organized agricultural fairs in greeting to May Day, in the midst of a serious food shortage to which the fuel crisis is added this year.

The official press reports the sale of products in parks or squares, with messages that speak of "optimism", although it cannot avoid showing the long lines of the population to be able to buy something.

In San Germán, a town in the Urbano Noris municipality of Holguín, the stationRadio SG The Voice of Sugar He spoke of "recreational activities", although the images shared only show queues and people looking for food.

"I really don't know if I should be grateful as a worker for the effort, because seeing such a queue for beer doesn't even give me the desire to celebrate. In the end, the least workers are the ones who can buy the most," commented one Internet user.

In Pinar del Río, peppers, chili peppers, eggplants, sweet potatoes, turnips and fish were sold.

It is a practice of the regime that throughout the year the stores and agricultural markets are practically empty, and when specific dates approach, these fairs are held where there is a variety of products, and there is no shortage of long lines.

The samemade on Saturday, March 25, one day before the general elections in which Díaz-Canel was re-elected.

In Camagüey, cooperatives and agricultural companies were summoned with trucks that were located in the parking lot of the Cándido González baseball stadium and on Avenida de la Libertad.

According to official reporter Jorge Luis Moreira Massagué, high-demand products were sold, such as vegetables, vegetables, meat and processed food.

Félix Duarte Ortega, head of the Agri-Food Department of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, attended the place, together with the first secretary of the Communist Party in the province, Federico Hernández Hernández.

For her part, Susely Morfa González, head of the Party in Matanzas, shared photos of two kiosks where bananas, chili, tomato puree and vinegar were sold in the municipality of Limonar.

"One more space for the satisfaction of the people," said the millionaire psychologist.

This Workers' Day was atypical in Cuba, because the government suspended commemorative activities under the pretext of "climatological instability." However, this Monday there was a totally sunny day, whichprovoked ridicule on social networks.

The regime postponed the events until next Friday, and attributed the measure to the meteorological situation that caused heavy rains in almost the entire Island.

Days before, the government hadThe traditional parade in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución suspended and other places in the country, an unprecedented decision in the last six decades, except for the two years of the pandemic.

For the first time, the total lack of fuel forced the dictatorship to dispense with its massive parades, and announced that events would be held in communities and workplaces.

A similar suspension, based on economic reasons, was not experienced even in the hardest years of the Special Period.