An elderly Cuban woman was happy on Tuesday after buying 95 euros at a Cadeca in Havana, money that she will use to buy jams for her grandchildren.
Marisela Prado, 63, confessed to the foreign press agencyAFP who got up early so she could be one of the first to enter an exchange house in Vedado, in Havana.
"I will be able to buy jams for my grandchildren," said the woman, who had to pay 11,885 Cuban pesos.
Although this figure is three times the average salary in Cuba, Prado was happy because this option is the only one with which he can buy sweets for his grandchildren, since sweets, like many other foods, are only found in stores. stores in MLC.
This is such a difficult situation that in a store of this type, its directorHe removed the jams from the windows, because the children saw them displayed and cried. for not being able to buy them, for not having access to hard currency.
Other users interviewed on TuesdayAFP Regarding the government's decision to sell foreign currency to the population, they assured that this does not solve the problem.
"With the salary I earn I would buy thirty-something dollars. If (the price) were adjusted a little, maybe we could see an improvement," said Estrella Delgado, a 36-year-old university professor, who added that "the real solution is to sell basic necessities in Cuban pesos".
On Tuesday,With police presence, the sale began dand currency by the Cuban government to the population in 37 exchange offices (Cadecas) throughout the country.
Reports from the official press assure that the process began early in the morning and is being carried out with organization. In some places, administrations distributed a certain number of shifts, depending on the availability of foreign currency.
The government is marketing the dollar at 123.60 Cuban pesos (CUP), with a limit of 100 dollars or the equivalent in another currency.
The sale of foreign currency to natural persons under limits has generatedcriticism from Cubans who question what salary they are going to buy with currencies, why buy dollars if they cannot be deposited in MLC accounts, or why you can only buy 100 dollars.
Even the official journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso questioned that the Cadecas only sell the currency that they have previously purchased.
"It is not enough for an official to say out loud: 'Today we have 30 thousand dollars or 45 thousand euros to sell.' If we do not put in place a mechanism by which these deposits are known to everyone, in which the operations by both the institution and the clients, the CADECAS will be sadly famous for the darkness of their management," he noted.
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