Unloading of a ship with food is news in Cuba: "Work is being done to guarantee the regulated family basket"

The government's terrible management of "continuity" has led to a decline in the already low food standards of Cubans and forces theofficial press of the regime to report on events that should not be news, such as the unloading of merchandise from ships.

The acute food shortage that plagues the country does not provoke reflection in the official media about its causes. The mission of the press at the service of the Palace of the Revolution is to blame the hunger of Cubans on the “blockade” and celebrate each food delivery as a “success” for its leaders.

"In Cuba, work is being done to guarantee the regulated family basket," indicated areportage of theCuban Television News (NTV) which summarized the “effort” of all those involved in a “multi-sector operation to transport food for the population.”

Workers at the port of Havana unload the 11,300 tons of bulk rice that arrived aboard the ship “Graciela,” working in consecutive shifts and bagging the grain at the foot of the ship before loading it onto the trucks that will distribute it “to the warehouses.” provincial, and from there to the more than 12,000 wineries in the country.”

This is how the engineer explained itLázaro Manuel González Marrero, director of port services of the Port Maritime Transport Business Group (GEMAR), belonging to the Ministry of Transportation (MITRANS), ensuring that the unloading was being carried out in record time and without problems.

“This allows us to continue the distribution of the regulated family basket in the month of October. This vessel, once its operation ends here, would move to Cienfuegos, where it will allow us to continue distribution in the provinces of Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spíritus,” stated the lawyer.Francisco Silva Herrera, general director of Sales of the Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN).

According to Silva Herrera, another ship with similar characteristics is unloading in the port of Santiago de Cuba, to later distribute the rice in the eastern provinces. Once it concludes there, it will move to the port of Nuevitas to continue with the unloading and distribution in Camagüey and the rest of the provinces.

Another ship with rice is unloading (in containers) at the port of Mariel. Another ship with peas unloads in Cienfuegos, after passing through Havana. And another, cabotage, comes with salt to the capital from Santiago de Cuba.

“Everything is prioritized here and everything is going well,” said González Marrero, ensuring that “everything is analyzed hour by hour, day by day, and… well… any type of problems are made the necessary corrections.”

The rice stored on the Graciela ship will be finished unloading next Thursday and the capital's port terminal will prepare to receive other food ships, according to NTV.

In the event of delays in the delivery of food due tosupply book, something that frequently happens on the island, Cubans will have to believe what he said two years ago inCubadebate the head of the MINISTRY,Betsy Diaz Velazquez: "The ships are on the voyage, but it takes 40 to 50 days."

If this explanation is not satisfactory, there is always the lapidary phrase of the head of Economy and Planning,Alejandro Gil Fernandez: "We know that it is difficult to find everyday food, a blackout of eight or ten hours is difficult, the issue of transportation...but trust, the only way out is revolution and socialism".