Otto Ortiz criticizes the Government's inaction in the face of currency rise: "The measure taken is to beat them out of fatigue"

The Cuban comedian Otto Ortiz He criticized the Government's inaction in the face of the rise in currencies in the informal market.

Otto recalled that about two months ago the euro was at 325 CUP and At this moment it is going for 402.5 CUP, and everything indicates that it will continue to rise and "before the end of the year it will have to walk through infinity."

The comedian is concerned that when some "specialist" comments on the informal exchange rate, he The only thing he does is blame the elToque portal and say that action is being taken.

"We've been doing this for months and nothing," he questioned in his profile. Facebook.

The actor wonders what is really being done to stop this price increase. "From what can be seen, the measure taken is beat them out of fatigue, wait for the euro and the dollar to say: 'now, I can't handle so much CUP'", he stressed.

"The economy of a country is controlled with economic measures, with adjustments (...) Never does a country stop inflation by speaking ill of an Internet page", said.

"And the worst thing, the State adjusts its prices, state prices, meaning prices of old cars, regulated cigarettes, etc., sets state prices, putting them on par with informal market prices"he assured.

In the comedian's opinion, Cuba has become a great Mazorra where everyone is a patient of this madness.

"We must not forget that the objective is to satisfy the increasingly growing needs of the population and, according to the classics, guarantee eating, dressing and drinking before doing art, politics and religion," he concluded.

He Castro regime develops a campaign against elToque, a website that publishes daily the representative rate of currencies in Cuba, with the price fluctuations of currencies in informal sales.

Official media and Profiles in networks of Government followers blame the platform for the devaluation of the CUP, despite the fact that the only thing elToque does is collect data in buying and selling networks, and even disseminates the methodology it uses.

According to the medium Cubadebate, the United States uses elToque to carry out actions aimed at affecting the Cuban economy, which have generated a negative impact on the country's monetary scale, which has caused an increase in prices and affected its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The former Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil, today accused of corruption, assured in December that They would intervene in the informal currency market because "it is a distortion."

"The exchange market is one of the main distortions that the economy is facing and it is not by design. We did not design that exchange market that is operating in the country, but an important part of the foreign exchange that non-state acquirers do so in that market," Gil said at the Round Table.