The government of Santiago de Cuba agreed to cap prices transport and of some basic products, as an emergent and desperate measure to stop the rampant inflation in the eastern province.
Manuel Falcón Hernandez, governor of the city, published in Facebook last Friday that during an Extraordinary and Expanded Provincial Council of the People's Power Government "it was agreed to establish capped prices for essential products and transportation services."
The official pointed out that the decision was made based “on cost sheets and evaluations with economic actors”, suggesting that the measure will impact self-employed workers, micro, small and medium-sized businesses (MSMEs), and cooperatives, who are forced to purchase their products in dollars and resort to obtaining foreign currency in an unregulated manner, in a context where there is no There is an official exchange market.
Furthermore, the governor of the city of Santiago de Cuba threatened greater control over those economic actors who impose “abusive prices of agricultural and daily consumption products", and in this way, according to him, "boost the economy."
Contradictorily, Falcón admitted at the same time the existence of a high degree of corruption, a topic that stood out as one of the most important addressed during the meeting of leaders and communists of the province.
Finally, the official announced that the “participation of the population will be key to the effectiveness of these measures,” suggesting that it will be up to individuals or mass organizations, expose cases of inflation and corruption.
According to him, this strategy will represent the path towards "prevention and forceful action against irregularities to guarantee economic and social well-being in the province", without mentioning or delving into the true causes of the economic crisis in the country or the rampant inflation.
During the Extraordinary and Expanded Provincial Council of Popular Power Government, the city governor announced measures to stop the growing disengagement from work and study of young people in that province, and threatened to go house to house to carry out a statistical survey, the newspaper quoted Sierra Maestra.
In the case of those unemployed, the availability of employment will be evaluated both in their residence area as in the municipality.
In addition, an individualized analysis will be carried out on those of school age who abandoned their studies, with the aim of guiding their reintegration into the educational system.
Last March, the Cuban ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel He assured that, with his package of economic measures to “correct distortions and re-boost the economy,” prices will continue to be high, but they will not allow “abusive or speculative prices”.
In a meeting of the Ministry of Finance and Prices (MFP), the first secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) warned about the need to do more effective price verifications, with the aim of confronting abuse and speculation.
Last April, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz called apply exemplary measures to lower prices in Cuba.
"What is each council doing in the battle against prices, we are lacking hard hand in many places, take exemplary measures in defense of our people," he stated during a meeting with officials from Isla de la Juventud.
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