The authorities of Santiago de Cuba announced the measures they took when they did not have the chicken corresponding to the basic basket at this time of the month.
Juan Carlos Rosell, coordinator for Commerce and Services Programs in the province, insisted in a press conference that the per capita established for each consumer is maintained.
"Based on actual availability, children from 0 to 13 years old, pregnant women and those who are cared for by Social Assistance will be prioritized, receiving 460 grams, equivalent to a pound of chicken. Consumers over 65 years of age will receive 345 grams correspond," he said, quoted by the weeklySierra Maestra.
"In the case of children, pregnant women and those over 65 years of age, the Oficoda Consumer Registry will issue the cut at the end of May. The lists of people who are protected by Social Assistance, some 40,828, will be in the butcher shops, it being the responsibility of Commerce to place them duly certified. The consumer will also be asked for their identity to proceed with the sale," he stressed.
The leader pointed out that people included in two categories, for example, a person over 65 years of age who is assisted, will receive the product for both categories.
As for the rest of the products that are sold through the booklet, Rosell specified that the June oil is due because it has not arrived in the country.
Of the coffee, the April one was delivered and the May one is still being processed: the municipalities of Guamá and part of Santiago de Cuba have already received it. In the latter, the June beans and peas are being completed.
The salt of the current quarter was completed.
While the government of Santiago de Cuba says that the population's chicken has not yet arrived, with only 10 days left until the end of the month, in other provinces the State sells that same food for thousands of pesos.
Over the weekend, pro-government journalist Jesús Álvarez López criticized thesale of boxes of chicken for more than 8,500 pesos at a state fair from Villa Clara.
The station reporterCMHWHe recounted his perplexity upon learning the price of boxes of chicken at the fair for Father's Day, and questioned whether state entities sell chicken to the population at abusive prices.
"I suggest that if a socialist state company is going to be allowed to sell essential products to the people at abusive prices, at least its surnames be removed. If a company loses prestige there, it does not have the right to discredit the State and the socialism," he said.
At the beginning of May, the Cuban government announced the sale of chicken through the supply book to those over 14 years of age, which gavereverse the measure of not giving more chicken to that group, and replace it with minced meat and mortadella.
The Ministry of Domestic Trade published a brief note explaining that chicken from the family basket would begin to be sold in Camagüey, and then in the rest of the country "in accordance with the availability of the product."
A few days before, a manager had said that other meat products such as minced meat and mortadella would be distributed to these consumers, news that caused great discomfort in the population, overwhelmed by the lack of food and high prices.
During those days, a grandmother from the municipality of Bauta, in Artemisa, indignantly showed theportion of chicken that his granddaughter received from the supply book, which he described as "a shame."
"Draw your own conclusions, that is my granddaughter's chicken of the month. A shame. It should be 12 ounces [barely 9.5]. I can't take it anymore...", he noted on the Facebook profile "Cuban mothers for a better world" the user L.O.P.
The publication exposed photos of the chicken ration, almost on the bones, for a child in an entire month, in addition to the theft by the butcher.
"I went [to see the butcher] and after a complicated discussion he completed it and what was missing from the mortadella, after arguing that it was my weight and who was going to eat the carapace... But I ended up in the polyclinic with the pressure through the roof... Next month will be the same," the grandmother commented, annoyed.
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