Seven municipalities in Havana are left without bread due to lack of flour

The residents of seven Havana municipalities stayed this Friday without being able to buy rationed bread that the State sells for supply book due to the shortage of raw materials for its production.

lack of flour for the production of bread in state bakeries made it impossible, according to a note from the Provincial Food Industry Company (EPIA), the distribution of this food product in the warehouses of Centro Habana, Habana Vieja, San Miguel del Padrón, Diez de Octubre, Cerro, Arroyo Naranjo and Playa.

In that sense, the Havana government used its social networks to report “delays in the availability of bread for this Friday, as well as the associated credits, due to the delay of flour in the area.”

The confusing and rambling information note from the authorities assured that “the remaining supply for the production and sale of bread is in transit from Cienfuegos, to ensure production and supply.”

The shortage of flour left people without their daily ration of bread (of poor quality and lower weight than before). more than a million Cubans who reside in said municipalities (1,094,918).

After the supposed improvement that would result the entry of several shipments of flour into the countryAs promised by several authorities in the country and repeated by the official media in a triumphalist tone, the truth is that reports and complaints from outraged citizens concerned about the shortage of bread have increased.

Since at the end of February, the Cuban regime announced severe effects on the distribution of bread, the population has been suffering intermittencies in the rationed sale of this product (one loaf of 60 grams, or less, per person per day).

According to authorities from the Ministry of the Food Industry (MINAL), the effects would be felt on the island until the end of March. However, residents of Villa Clara, Guantánamo and Camagüey have reported that the situation continues at the beginning of April.

The risk of food insecurity that Cubans run has found in social networks a way to give vent to discomfort and criticism to the ruler's policies Miguel Diaz-Canel, like those recently expressed by the official journalist from Villa Clara, Jesus Alvarez Lopez.

Or that of a Cuban mother, resident in the province of Guantánamo, who expressed the discomfort she felt after not being able to buy standardized bread for her disabled son. “I feel so sad! Today I went to the bakery and they told me that my son doesn't get bread just because of his age," she said.

Others, like the Cuban lawyer Manuel Viera Cañive, have questioned the shortage of bread in state bakeries while MSMEs maintain their supply.

"If we know that these MSMEs can only import through state importers, How come that flour arrived on time and the flour used to make the town's bread did not? "Surely it is the fault of the blockade!" criticized the jurist at the beginning of March.