Government distributes food for the people of Santiago: "Food for today and hunger for tomorrow"

The 17M protests have managed to dismantle the "blockade" argument used by the Cuban regime to justify the food shortage. Suddenly, in a "miraculous" way, trucks loaded with milk, eggs, flour, chicken and other foods have appeared.

2 | 20/03/2024 - 7:28am (GMT-5)

"We are hungry"shouted the people of Santiago de Cuba in the presence of police and provincial government authorities,during the massive protests of March 17 (17M).

Women, men, young people and children fearlessly shouted this message and others in front of the repressors led by the top leader of theCommunist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the province,Beatriz Johnson Distance, who promisedthree pounds of rice and four of sugar Immediately.

Captura de pantalla Facebook / Yosmany Mayeta Labrada

“The protests have forced the party authorities to remove from warehouses what they had intended for sales in dollars in the MSMEs created by the regime. “Rice, chicken, milk and even quail eggs for the diets of pregnant women, the people of Santiago are receiving through the ration book,” he reported in hissocial networks the independent journalistYosmany Mayeta Labrada.

According to its publication, the population of Santiago is still amazed, because "it has been a long time since there have been several trucks loaded with products that arrive together at the local wineries." However, in statements to the journalist, a neighbor considered that“That is food for today and hunger for tomorrow”.

“When the little they have sold is gone, here comes the good thing. What we want is Freedom,” concluded the woman, a resident of the Veguita de Galo neighborhood, the epicenter of the historic 17M protests inSantiago de Cuba.

Mayeta Labrada also stated, according to consulted sources, that the loading and unloading tasks required by the PCC's hasty logistics were carried out by inmates from minimum security correctional centers and military service recruits.

Photographs and a video shared by the journalist showed the deployment of trucks throughout the city, loaded with bags of flour, boxes of chicken, cartons of eggs, and other foods.

In a “miraculous” way,The 17M protests ended the US “blockade”, whom the Cuban regime blames for the shortage of food, medicine and basic necessities on the island. Now, suddenly, food appeared that could not arrive before due to the “blockade.”