Government restarts distribution of bread from the family basket in Cuban provinces

After weeks without a daily supply of bread through the notebook, the Cuban government restarted this Monday the distribution of this product from the regulated family basket in the country's provinces, including Villa Clara and Matanzas.

“This Monday they will restart the production and distribution of bread from the basic basket for all consumers in the thirteen municipalities of Villa Clara,” he reported in hissocial networks the official mediaCuban Vanguard.

This was confirmed by the director of the Provincial Food Production Company (EPPA) in the territory,Odel Dueñas, who did not specify whether the normalization of supply is definitive, or is expected to be possible again.bread shortage in the province.

Last Monday, after a supposed improvement that would result in the entry of several shipments of flour into the country, the EPPA reported on theimpossibility of producing the demanded standardized bread, due to the lack of the main raw material in that territory.

On that occasion, Dueñas acknowledged that "we still do not know when we will be able to restart this distribution that we used to do every other day in wineries and other points of sale in the province."

For their part, the Matanzas authorities reported insocial networks that "starting tomorrow [this Monday] bread production will stabilize in the province, which will allow the daily marketing of this important food from the regulated family basket."

“With the arrival of flour to the Food Company warehouses, 80-gram bread will be made for the population and delivered to entities,” reported the institutional page of the Provincial Government of Popular Power in that province.

However, the news of the normalization of the supply of rationed bread in the provinces contrasts with the sad reality that theresidents of seven Havana municipalities who were left without being able to buy bread The last friday.

Uncertainty marks the decision-making sphere of the Cuban authorities, who juggle with the scarceflour that they manage to buy in the midst of the current crisis to supply the population with an essential food product.

Since at the end of February,The Cuban regime announced severe effects on the distribution of bread, the population has been suffering interruptions in the sale of rationed bread (a loaf of 60 grams, or less, per person per day), whose quality is also terrible.

According to authorities from the Ministry of the Food Industry (MINAL), the effects would be felt on the island until the end of March. However, residents of many provinces began April without rationed bread, an alarming situation that, despite having been temporarily solved, illustrates the risk of food insecurity that Cubans run.

The shortage of flour has led Cuban rulers to stop providing the rationed bread that they sell to the population, while promoting the “culture” of “eliminating subsidies and gratuities,” and favoring the proliferation of opaqueMSMEs and private businesses that continue to import flour to make bread that they sell at prices unaffordable for the majority, a policy that only exacerbates the growing inequality on the Island.