Huge queue to buy stamps at the Havana post office

An immense queue to buy stamps at the Cerro Post Office in Havana shows the worsening shortage of a high-demand merchandise after the approval of the Nietos Law in Spain, as the government acknowledged this week.

"If someone needs stamps for some procedure, they get them at the Santa Catalina and Juan Delgado post office. If they can't get there or wait in line, they can always wait for the brave resellers," posted an Internet user on Twitter along with a video of the line. , which extends for more than a block.

This week the state company Correos de Cuba confirmed that thestamp shortage that has been dragging on in the country since last year worsened after the Spanish government approved the new Grandchildren Law.

In an explanatory note on the phenomenon, which has even generatedprotests among the population, the entity indicated that the tax stamp on documents (ISD) wasuse for procedures, and they have had a demand much higher than what was conceived by the authorities.

To the growing demand for the Nietos Law "we must add that last year the country was not able to have the necessary foreign currency to acquire abroad all the paper money that was required to produce in Cuba the demanded supply of ISD stamps," the entity specified.

The lack of stamps for documents was also exacerbated by the Cuban immigration crisis and the general shortage in the country, which is whyCuban Post Office has tried to solve the problem with the sale of stamps digitally, but "the procedures and documents related to International Affairs will continue to demand physical ISD stamps," he explained.

In October, the Grandchildren Law came into force and hundreds of Cubans began the procedures to acquire Spanish nationality and, with it, the European passport.