Cuban authorities sold cow bones to the people of Havana during a fair for the anniversary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), according to the independent news platform CubaNet.
"Bone sale for 200 pesos," the news outlet noted, specifying that the fair took place on the central Galiano street.
In the shared video, several people can be seen standing in a long line to acquire bones with very little meat and other products that were being sold on-site.
The clip also documented other sales areas on the aforementioned Havana street, where it was possible to see the sale of clothing.
Several of the comments accompanying the post criticize that the people are being sold this type of food scraps, which are only useful for substances because they lack meat.
"No one is a victim of anyone; we are all accomplices of what we allow. As Nicolás Guillén said: I have what I had to have," a user on the social network pointed out in a strong comment.
"What a lack of respect, that is what we deserve. And the people can't eat the meat because they don't even allow it to be sold. But the bones, yes. What an abuse!" pointed out another internet user.
"Man, it seems like they do it on purpose; they take the meat and sell the people the bone... they're out of line... besides that, without electricity so they can suffer in the heat for as long as they want," detailed another person, adding other problems faced by Cuban society today.
This sale of bones is not a novelty among the Cuban population; at other times, the leaders have sent trucks with this product, taking advantage of the severe food crisis in the country and knowing that many Cubans have no other option but to purchase them, despite the high prices at which the government sells them.
In 2023, impressive images circulated on social media showing the lack of hygiene in the sale of cow bones in Camagüey, where the product was thrown on the ground, in the middle of the street, for distribution.
That very year, in Las Tunas, they distributed cow ribs to the people in the state butcher shop, but in reality, they were just bones. "Those ribs were completely scraped with a blade," said an internet user.
Criticism in Havana arose from images of a sale of beef bones as if they were "meat products."
The false promotion took place in the Bahía neighborhood, in the Mercado Redondo, on 20th Street, where fish (tilapia) and "meat" were sold.
In early August of this year, another report by Cubanet showed the unsanitary conditions in which the sale of bones, beef shanks, and beef tripe was taking place at an agricultural fair in Parque del Cristo, in the municipality of La Habana Vieja.
The government allocates the majority of the meat produced in the country to tourism. Hotels receive hundreds of pounds of beef, but the Cuban people are sold bones and by-products of the animals.
This has been happening for years on the island. The situation has deteriorated to such an extent that people consider the sale of bones and food in unhygienic conditions as something natural.
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