In the midst of the serious crisis in Cuba, the Minister of Food Industry (MINAL), Alberto López Díaz, stated this Thursday that it is not necessary to invest in new technologies and infrastructure to produce food.
When speaking at the second session of the Third Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP, Parliament), the official stated that there are 4,500 industries and establishments in the island that produce food.
There is a technology, missing a spare part, but our people put it into operation every day because the sector's greatest strength lies in its workers, who have the experience to produce the food the country needs," he said, using an old triumphalist speech that is increasingly losing support among the population.
"In the conditions of a wartime economy, we do not need to invest in new technologies and infrastructure; with what we have, we have enough capacity to reverse and transform the current situation," stated López Díaz, who assumed the leadership of the MINAL last February.
In his speech, he said that these are complex times but that "the workers and the population have a high capacity for resilience".
Unable to recognize his inefficiency, evident every day at the Cuban people's table, the minister stated last year, when he was the governor of Villa Clara, that the problems in Cuban agriculture were a result of "laziness and sloth."
However, farmers claim that the government owes them millions of pesos, which prevents them from ensuring new harvests, and inflation and food shortages are crucial problems that Cubans are facing.
In recent months, several protests have been reported in Cuba, where residents claim three basic issues: "we are hungry", "no more blackouts", and "freedom".
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