They will deliver a new card for the sale of controlled products in stores in Havana

The Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN) announced the delivery of anew temporary card for the purchase of controlled products in stores of the Caribe and CIMEX chains in Havana.

According to the note, published inHavana Tribune, the decision to implement the new support was made after "several temporary card designs circulated without an established procedure, which has caused improper deliveries."

The card now announced will be delivered, according to the MINCIN, to "workers and officials who are carrying out tasks of national organizations or entities permanently in the province, upon request by the head of the organization that represents them."

Likewise, consumers who live stably at an address in the capital and who are not registered in a supply book may have access to it.

It will also be given to foreigners with permanent residence who, even having a booklet, are not recognized by the OREGI computer system, a Consumer Registry tool to carry out the procedures.online.

The OFICODAS will begin to deliver the new card from Monday, May 15.

Last December, the regime implemented a newregulated sales system of some products in national currency in CIMEX and Caribe stores, designed to avoid queues and overbuying by resellers.

The authorities defined five controlled items (chicken, minced meat, sausage, oil and detergent), which are sold at high prices in a certain period and in the assigned store, and are recorded in the supply book.

But at the end of the month, a report on official television showed thedissatisfaction of the population with the complex organizational framework.

Users criticized the instability in the assortments and the difference between the stores, some stocked and others almost empty, and the incomplete supply of the five products to which they are entitled once a month, which forced them to go to the store several times. .

In January, the government of the Cuban capital announced that its OFFICES would take stronger measures to control people who buy essential products through the Caribe Stores.

Deceased people, prisoners and people outside the country would be automatically discharged, to prevent their relatives from continuing to purchase food and toiletries in their name.

"There were people who had more than one notebook, people who died more than five years ago who were still listed as consumers, other cases who had left the country," said Yamilé Álvarez Trejo, head of the commercial department of Tiendas Caribe.

Not even foreign residents who work in places strongly linked to the government apparatus have been saved from the diabolical and convoluted procedures for controlling the distribution of food and hygiene products.

The Italian journalist Ida Garberi, from the agencyLatin Press, was able to verify it last February: When he went to make the purchase of products that corresponded to him as a resident in Cuba - he has been living in the country for more than two decades - he found that it was not on the list and they did not ship it to him.

After the incident, he went to seek a response from the Office of E, between 19 and 21, in El Vedado, and they argued that foreigners did not have the right to purchase, after which Garberi exploded on social networks: "It insults me that some Cuban leaders are so xenophobic.