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Farmer asks to use the fuel destined for the May Day event in food production

"You can't have parties without resources, that's wasting what little there is," Leonel Capote told Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, who announced a great celebration.

Leonel Capote © Leonel Capote / Twitter
Leonel Capote Photo © Leonel Capote / Twitter

A Cuban farmer asked the government to allocate the fuel that will be used in the May Day event to food production.

Leonel Capote, who defines himself as a tweeting peasant, shared his request on the prime minister's Twitter accountManuel Marrero, who announced a great celebration for International Workers' Day.

"All of Cuba is getting ready for the celebration of the proletariat. This May 1 we will be putting our hands and hearts to the country, and we will proudly celebrate the great victory obtained in the national elections," Marrero announced.

The farmer's response could not have been more forceful.

"That fuel to transport masses of people should be used for food production, we don't have it right now.You can't have parties without resources, that's wasting what little there is.", wrote.

Leonel Capote resides in Güira de Melena, Artemisa, where he is dedicated to the production of various crops such as carrots, beets, peppers, pumpkin, chives and cucumbers, among others.

Like many farmers, he suffers from the lack of inputs that the State must guarantee and that limits his results.

"Did you see the little food and vegetables that were harvested and wanted to come across after a great effort to produce? Now, with the fuel shortage, nothing has been able to be planted. I will see the empty counters," he said on Thursday in another tweet.

This week, farmer and activist Daniel Alfaro Frías, also from Artemisa, lamented theloss of their crops due to lack of resources to attend to the crops, in the midst of the food crisis that the country is going through.

"Nothing is more sad and discouraging than seeing the crops that you managed to make with a lot of sacrifice lose, and because you don't have anything to help them with, or water them, they fall apart, they die, you simply lose the entire investment and with them the desire to move forward," the producer, who lives in Guanajay, wrote on Facebook.

In February, Leonel Capote denounced that theBanks do not have the necessary funds to pay farmers, which affects the salary of its workers and prevents them from acquiring inputs and resources.

"We need to collect our money now, to pay the workers and investments in the farms," he demanded.

Capote has denounced on several occasions the immobility of the Cuban authorities to buy him the food that he harvests with so much work, which is why his products spoil in the fields.

"Díaz-Canel, Ministry of Agriculture, here is my harvest. What do we do with it?" he wrote in April 2022, along with a photo in which apile of pumpkins freshly taken from the furrow that according to the farmer, no one wanted to buy them.

This summons to the Cuban government causedThey will call him to report to the management of the cooperative to which it belonged.

"My tweets were written very politely and without offending anyone, trying to solve my problems as a farmer," he defended himself.

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