Self-employed worker who sold diapers in Old Havana is fined 8,000 pesos

The municipal authorities of Old HavanaThey fined 8,000 pesos toself-employed who sold diapers at “abusive or speculative prices.”

“The Inspection Directorate of Old Havana, in its confrontation with illegalities, detected this week several events related to price alterations related to Self-Employed Workers (TCP),” it reported in itssocial networks the Board of Directors of that municipality.

According to the municipal government body, the self-employed worker violated the provisions of section 'L' of article 7, included in theDecree Law 30/21. The article in question deals with “Personal contraventions of the rules that govern the pricing and tariff policy”, and contains the assumptions for which fines and other measures are imposed on those who “contravene the regulations of retail prices and tariffs.” ”.

Subsection 'L' establishes a fine “from 8,000 pesos to 10,000 pesos and the obligation to comply with the measures” for those who apply, allow it to be applied, or order “abusive or speculative prices to be applied.”

Furthermore, the authorities of Old HavanaThey imposed fines of 5,000 CUP on two self-employed workers who sold items on public roads “with a non-visible price of the products”, for which subsection 'A' of the aforementioned decree was applied to them.

“Finally, in the Fraternidad park, a price violation was detected on the Palma-Habana section, where a driver charged 200 CUP instead of charging 75 for whatThe carrier was notified with 8,000 CUP", indicated the municipal authorities, pointing out that the self-employed worker violated thecapped prices of transportation.

The shortage of basic food, hygiene and pharmaceutical products in Cuba impacts the population in the form of high prices on basic necessities such as disposable diapers used by babies and sick or elderly people.

Scenes of riots and violence frequently occur before the eyes of the police and the staff of state commercial establishments where few units of these products are sold.

In mid-October 2023, between shouts and pushes, a group of Cubans showed their despair and indignation at the disorganization and the presence of resellerswhile waiting in line to buy disposable diapers in a state store in Havana.

The images of the event, shared on the journalist's social networksMario Vallejo, showed dozens of people crowded together and dissatisfied with the organization and sale of this necessary product for small children, the elderly and the sick.

The lack of diapers in Cuban markets generates a lot of stress because there is no soap and in many territories there is a shortage of water to wash cloth diapers.

In April of that year, a desperate Cuban mother expressed her discontent on social networks with the lack of disposable diapers for young children, protesting becauseI had to pay them at 1,500 pesos, an unsustainable cost for a Cuban family.

A year earlier, theCIMEX Corporation, attached to the Business Administration Group S.A (GAESA, belonging to the military leadership of the regime), pointed out that the shortage of disposable diapers that Cuban mothers denounced was not such, but ratherthere was an overdemand for the product, which is why they were sold out in less than 72 hours after going on sale in CUP stores.

The inability of the regime's state companies to supply the population with essential products, added to the indolence of its "cadres" and leaders, provokes statements and justifications like the previous one, which provoke indignation among the population.

Last August, a line to buy food and baby diapers in Old Havanaled to a protest that was quelled by the police. According to the independent mediaCubanet, the protest occurred after hours of waiting in a queue and after the establishment's employees announced that “they were not going to sell more.”

Sometimes, the riots caused by the desperation of the population are violently dispersed by the police, as happened in January 2023, when a group of Cuban mothers had to flee from a line to buy diapers, many of them with their children in arms or in strollers, becausethe police sprayed pepper spray They were waiting to buy the items at the La Comadrita store, located inOld Havana.