Indignation among Cuban mothers over lack of milk in stores in Havana

Cuban mothers indignantly reported that the milk for children has not been distributed in the bodegas of Havana despite the fact that the month is already coming to an end.

"Today is August 22, and in my store in Cerro, only 700 grams of milk have arrived this entire month for children over three years old," said a woman in the Facebook group "Cuban mothers for a better world."

"That situation exists in all municipalities across the country, where are we going to end up?" affirmed another.

A Cuban mother added that the distribution of milk corresponding to the weeks of August 11 and 21 was missing in her store; and a resident in Lisa confirmed that she hasn't been sold the product for those weeks either.

"Same for everyone... it's a total lack of respect... that is until all the mothers get fired up and go to the Plaza... Because they are testing their strength to take away the milk completely from our children... and in all the Mipymes they have it at 2500... until when... until when are we going to keep enduring, for God's sake," a woman commented.

"I'm ruined, it's a lack of respect," "They owe me for the 11th of July in Guanabacoa... they also gave me the same amount of milk... it's a joke what they have going on with the children, a lack of everything... and in the MLC here in Chivás, they reduced the milk that expires in a few days by only 50 cents, going bad there from the heat..."; "In all the stores it's the same, I live in Lawton and nothing else has come," were other comments on the social network.

A desperate mother stated that the situation "is heartbreaking." "And only God knows where the money for our children's milk is, since supposedly the MLC stores were meant to collect dollars to buy milk for the children abroad. Well, that's what Marrero said," she emphasized.

According to data from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), Cuba currently produces less fresh milk than during the "special period" of the 1990s.

In February, the Cuban government requested official assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP) to address the issues of distributing milk to children under seven years old in the country.