The Cuban government has added a new battle to the many wars it has within the country due to its ineffective economic policy. Now they are launching a crusade against digital sales.
"Act with rigor in all territories and identify sales promoted on digital sites or conducted at home to evade inspection and ignore the temporary price regulation," indicates the profile Gobierno Cuba on X as a directive from Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz to the governors of the country.
"We are not against that service, but it has to adhere to the established prices. The results of the confrontation must be made known, not only so that the people can see that we are defending it, but so that the violators know that this is serious," he ordered a few days after strong measures were announced against the private sector in the National Assembly.
The action is part of the escalation that the regime has undertaken to attack micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (mipymes), which they accuse of "high, speculative, and abusive prices for basic products and services for the population."
"Already in Havana, we intervened in a case of a digital platform. We managed to identify the holders who were making the sales. They were summoned, given a warning, and at that very moment, they lowered the price of chicken. In other words, work can also be done with those who conduct digital sales," said Vladimir Regueiro Ale, Minister of Finance and Prices.
According to the official digital site Cubadebate, the minister stated that the sanctions in Decree 30, "which aim to address acts of indiscipline and prevent abusive and speculative pricing, can range from 5,000 to 15,000 pesos for violations of rates and prices, but can go up to 18,000 pesos."
Additionally, the official explained that "the numbers are showing us that we were asleep on this issue, they show that we had not applied all the rigor and the necessary follow-up."
During his closing speech of the third ordinary session of the X Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), the island's leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, confirmed the shift of the Cuban regime in its policy of timid economic opening, and reaffirmed his willingness to subject the activity of "new economic actors" to state guidelines and the centralized planning of the economy.
“It is time to move beyond diagnostics and move on to actions,” was the phrase used by the president to unleash actions against small private businesses in Cuba.
In the very meeting of the Cuban deputies, the Cuban prime minister had informed that the Cuban government revoked the import license of nearly a third of the private businesses that were authorized to do so.
"It was decided to close this faculty to 24 out of the 73 approved companies for import, due to low activity level and poor performance," stated the bureaucrat.
Similarly, important changes in regulations for small and medium enterprises (mipymes) and self-employment were announced.
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