Rolando Reyes, a retiree in the province of Las Tunas, reported that a state bakery is selling bread that weighs 11 grams for 25 pesos.
"I stopped by the bakery and saw that there was a lot of bread. I was surprised, and when I went in to ask, they told me this costs 25 pesos," the gentleman reported while holding the small product, in a video published by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.
Behind him was a man with three children, who was going to buy a loaf of bread for each of them, he recounted.
"The man, when he was told the price, said 'let's go,'" commented Reyes.
The father left, visibly upset for not being able to pay such an outrageous price for the three loaves of bread, he pointed out.
Reyes explained that he bought this bread, which for him was "throwing money away," just to make this complaint, and regarding the product's raw materials, he said, "I don't know what the hell is in here."
He noted that he doesn't have extra money "because the miserable paycheck I receive doesn't last for three days' worth of food."
Reyes emphasized that he would continue to make this type of denunciation, even if they called him an opponent of the regime.
"I am not afraid of them coming to my house or putting me in jail; I will always report it. You are a bunch of shameless people," he added.
"How much longer are we going to endure so much abuse, misery, and need when the bosses have everything?" she concluded.
In early March, the regime announced instability in bread production in Las Tunas.
However, the director of the Integrated Food Industry Company of Las Tunas, Alberto Fonseca Rodríguez, stated on March 13 that the production of this food had stabilized in the province.
On March 21, a government-affiliated journalist from the municipality of Jobabo reported that due to a lack of salt, the population in that area did not receive the precious food item.
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