Regarding the Mother's day, Cubans chose to bring a cake to their grandmother or mother as a gift. Today the unit prices of this product seem prohibitive for the decimated pockets of the island's inhabitants.
How did it happen last year, the marked economic crisis will be strongly felt in many homes, where one cannot even aspire to a small piece of cake, a custom that Cubans did not renounce even in the hardest years of the so-called Special Period.
Prices vary, depending on the different additions that are included in the cake. They can cost from 2,000 pesos if it is chocolate or 3,000 if it is tres leches, as he could verify CyberCuba in a post on Facebook.
As usually happens in any business in the world, the costs for shipping the delicious candy are separate.
Not even the Cuban authorities, well given to rationing food on the island, spoke out in favor of a regulated sale of this product, which is in line with the flour supply crisis and products necessary for its preparation.
In a country where The minimum wage is 2,100 pesos, prices in private businesses exceed what many Cubans can afford to purchase, even more so when needs may lean towards other food products lacking in the Cuban diet.
However, although many mothers will not be able to count on their piece of cake, others will spend it away from their children, well because they are imprisoned in Cuban prisons for demanding basic human rights, why have decided to emigrate seeking a more prosperous future for themselves and their families. Some will even have them alive, in a country where violence has been reaching worrying levels.
On the back is the National Electrical Union that promised them a day of long and exhausting blackouts.
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