This is how medicines are sold in Cuba

The vendors of La Cuevita, in the San Miguel del Padrón municipality in Havana, have almost any medicine that is needed in Cuba and, although their prices are high for many pockets, impoverished by the regime's erroneous decisions, it is one of the few places where you can purchase drugs when you do not have a family member abroad.

La Cuevita, one of those places where underground commerce refuses to comply with resolutions, decrees and laws, is these days a hive of people in search of remedies for their ailments.

A video from the independent news agencyCubaNet shows that world, which faces government prohibitions, evades inspectors and police, mocks the control exercised by the authorities and sells what until a few years ago was one of the few things that kept the official discourse that the country It was a medical powerhouse.

Whilesome pharmacies receive only 18% of the medications that Cuban patients need, including the chronic and dependent, the government looks to the side and grants a privateering license to street vendors, who ended up appropriating another front abandoned by the totalitarian State.

Hein need of medicine who travels to the municipality of San Miguel del Padrón moves between shouts and cries in the hope of buying, at the best price, what he needs and, furthermore, without a medical prescription, which is a mandatory requirement in the country's pharmacy network. .

For many, the great danger of this informal trade, of the little that works in Cuba, is that the sale of drugs in La Cuevita occurs without professional licenses, no one controls the quality of what is sold there and the health of people is put at risk. people.

It is not surprising that after the dissemination of these Third World images the authorities approved anotherraid, including the confiscation of the drugs, with the new Penal Code in hand, alleging adherence to the law and respect for human life.

However, the confrontation measures only end up further aggravating the critical situation with medicines, at least in the Cuban capital, and displacing the sellers, who will continue to take advantage of the crisis generated by more than six decades of bad management and lack of control

By extending for six more months the free importation of medicines, hygiene and food from abroad, the government only recognizes its inability to revive the pharmaceutical industry, of which it is the sole owner and which it cannot operate due to lack of financial resources. , not because the US embargo prevents it; one of the many lies that the regime repeats and no one believes anymore.

If true, theexports of domestically produced medicines to allied countries would have ceased, but the Caribbean communist paradise is the lamp of the street and the darkness of its home, unable to satisfy basic demands and restricting its citizens' access to human well-being.