Government only guarantees bread on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the urban area of Las Tunas

The Cuban Government announced that it will only guarantee standardized bread for the urban area of the province of LAs Tunas on Tuesdays and Thursdays, due to a "severe shortage" of wheat flour on the island.

The placeNewspaper 26 reported that the strategy was reconciled with "the Ministry of the Food Industry in the face of the severe shortage of wheat flour that state companies can acquire to produce the aforementioned highly subsidized product."

Alberto Fonseca Rodríguez, director of the Provincial Comprehensive Food Industry Company, explained that they are only receiving 12.16 tons of wheat flour twice a week, much less than half of the 29,601 per day that would be needed to make wheat bread. the winery.

The official blamed the situation on the United States' economic embargo, and said that now bread production has become more expensive due to food prices.import of raw materials.

Fonseca Rodríguez said that the entity monitors the availability of flour for the basic basket daily.

Although it did not specify how long this reduction in bread sales will last, last week the Ministry of the Food Industry stated that productionI was engaged until the end of March.

He added that this impact is due to "specific situations with planned shipments that provided continuity to the production of wheat flour in the country" and the deficient processing capacity in the only wheat mill in the country, in Cienfuegos.

However, thousands of Cuban families depend on the standardized bread sold by the government, especially the elderly andfamilies with children.

The day before, a message from a Cuban mother to the government transcended where she asks for solutions and no more calls for resistance.

María Padilla, from Camagüey, shared a text in which she describes the hardships and agonies to which she is subjected every day: blackouts, food shortages, high prices, lack of fuel for cooking...

His post, although he does not mention it explicitly, refers to Díaz-Canel and his habit of asking the people to "resist with creativity."