The people of Cuba have been waiting for more than six decades for the promises of free access to food, medicine, education and leisure options that the regime made in its beginnings to be fulfilled.
In a speech given by Fidel Castro, when he was still prime minister of the Revolutionary Government, assured peasants, workers and students that in Cuba there would be everything necessary for a prosperous life. He reiterated this idea in several forums, it was a constant in his interventions.
"Clothes, shoes, food, medicine, education and recreation for all the people, is what the Revolution has to guarantee them," said Fidel Castro on May 17, 1961, in the Rancho Boyeros Exhibition Park, where the second anniversary of the Agrarian Reform Law.
At that time he assured that the people did not care that there were no longer Cadillacs, nor tickets to Paris, nor fur coats in Cuban stores, because what people wanted, in his opinion, were other things.
"What does matter to the people is that there is food, meat, fats, eggs, grains, clothes, shoes. That is, that there are means to dress, put on shoes, educate themselves. It is possible that the people consume these items, and consume them almost every day, for that what you have to do is produce them," said Fidel Castro.
However, the one who had to guarantee all this was the people themselves by increasing productivity.
"If we want to maintain the pace of employment, the pace of development of all the cultural and economic activities of the nation, it is necessary that we all become apostles of increased production, because if not, we cannot be apostles of education or of work," he warned.
The blame for this shortage in 1961, according to Fidel, lay with the Cuban people themselves. The ruler said he had consulted scientific studies that detected, after the revolutionary government triumphed, a surprising increase in consumption and low productivity in the country.
"The people are consuming more, they are eating more, and we simply have to produce those foods that the people are consuming. Last year's production, despite being high, was such an increase in consumption that it forced us to sow emergency now in spring" he explained.
"If meat consumption triples... What should be done? Because there is no cow that is capable of tripling in one year. Livestock farming needs much more than three years to triple, and if consumption has tripled... Then it is a fact that production must be increased by all means.
In his opinion, the country also had to increase the production of fish, poultry, pork and "any articles that can produce meat of one kind or another", but this has never been achieved with socialist strategies. Currently, the lowest productivity figures in history are reached.
"Meat is an essential food that the people have not consumed. The consumption of meat for a large part of the population has been very reduced, and that is the cause of growth problems, health problems," Castro said to the beginning of his mandate, ensuring that the people were "very poorly fed."
Meat is currently an inaccessible product for millions of Cubans.
"It is necessary for our country to worry about creating a generation of healthier, stronger men and women, who are in physical condition, not only in mental condition, but also in physical condition to increase the country's production and economy," requested the deceased president.
In 2021, the largest migration wave in its history began in Cuba, with more than half a million people leaving the country. Population aging has increased and the productive forces are becoming weaker every day.
"This issue was generally never discussed in a forum, because who was going to talk about these problems in a forum. They would put anyone in prison. These are issues that should deserve our attention," said the late commander.
Six decades later, these problems are not talked about in Cuba either, because anyone could go to prison for analyzing on a platform the unproductivity, negligence, lack of perspectives and corruption in the communist regime imposed in Cuba, with the coming to power. by Fidel Castro.
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