Official journalist asks what you have to work on in Cuba to have a Ford Mustang: "Inequality is increasingly noticeable"

The official journalist Mariana Camejo wondered what you have to work on to have a Ford Mustang in Cuba, a country with very low salaries, rampant inflation and growing poverty.

"Please explain to me what needs to be done, what needs to be worked on, so that in Cuba with a terrible economic crisis like the one we have, someone can import a Ford Mustang GT," he asked in a Facebook post.

He says that "at the pace of an imported car, inequality in Cuba is increasingly noticeable," said the journalist, who works at Bohemia magazine.

He states that the Ford Mustang GT costs more than $30,000 in the United States, not counting import costs to the island, as indicated in the comments to his publication.

"Don't misunderstand me, I'm happy for those who can, the thing is that I wish we could all do it. So, tell me, what we need to work on," he concluded.

In April of last year, the United States Department of the Treasury grantedlicenses to Miami businessmen to ship cars, trucks, tractors and even trailers to self-employed workers in Cuba.

Since then, imported private cars circulate through the streets of the island,some of them high-end, unleashing the curiosity of Cubans.

Car buyers in Cuba mostly belongto the sector of micro, small and medium-sized companies of new creation (MSMEs), some of which already import trucks from the United States, like the one seen circulating through Boyeros, in Havana, of the International Trucks brand.

Another of the impressive cars seen in the Cuban capital is a Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG all-terrain vehicle, a powerful vehicle that sells for more than 150 thousand dollars.

There is also a GMC SUV that was captured with a provisional license plate, brand new, as well as a Porsche.

This, however, contrasts with a parallel reality that shows almost 90 percent of the population bordering on the limits of poverty.

Thousands of families, especially the elderly, complain of hunger, and have become part of the army of beggars that roam the streets of the island, as a result of low wages, inflation, and shortages of food and basic products.