Without tangible results, along with the worsening economic crisis on the island, the Cuban government announced that it will change the "work system" for the second half of the year, admitting that the actions taken to date have not yielded results.
"The work system has to change, it cannot be the same as the one we had in the first semester," said Manuel Marrero Cruz, the island's prime minister, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The Cuban official stated that the supposed shift is related to what was expressed in the recent session of the National Assembly of People's Power and with the government projections that will soon begin to be implemented, which is why “a review of the way we have been doing things so far is required,” reported the official newspaper Granma.
Marrero Cruz referred to 57 projections proposed by the government, which will primarily be approved and implemented during the second half of the year.
Among them, she cited measures aimed at the communicational and economic sectors, areas where the regime has a demonstrated weakness.
To this end, the leaders aim to "fight a battle against bureaucracy and the slow responses to many issues," according to Marrero Cruz. Meanwhile, they seek to launch an offensive on national production, as well as implement measures associated with the budget deficit.
According to the prime minister, they have begun to see results. "Today, the biggest impacts we have had in the implementation of government projections are precisely in the reduction of the fiscal deficit," he stated.
Proposals that seem titanic when it is known that the behavior of the regime's economic indicators is negative.
He also added that they will combat tax evasion, “another issue that is already showing results,” he said, and they will work on the regulation of the business system, “a topic that will keep us busy in the second semester, because we need to transform our business system structurally, organizationally, and functionally,” he added.
He also referred to the high prices that exist in Cuba, as a battle from which "we cannot rest, it cannot be just a campaign, it is daily work, and we must call on all possible forces."
Regarding banking access, he said that it will be given more impetus, with an emphasis on allowing agricultural markets and food retail establishments, both state-owned and non-state, to accept payments with bank cards.
Another point of his intervention was the state leases. "We need to see what we have in them, what services we provide, at what prices; we cannot allow the people to be mistreated in a government facility and have abusive prices," he stated.
But Marrero Cruz's promises did not stop at those points. The prime minister also added that they will work with children, adolescents, young people, and communities, “a main scenario that needs to be continuously strengthened,” Cubadebate mentioned.
The middle of 2024 reached them without either of those commitments being fulfilled. Rather, they were distanced from one of those obligations.
Even knowing that the opinion of Cubans about the country's situation, food shortages, and the basic basket is "critical and negative," Díaz-Canel does not miss an opportunity to ask Cubans to have faith that better times will come, something that many people doubt.
Meanwhile, he continues to appeal to the idea that the problems "are not insurmountable," without even presenting concrete solutions to address the crisis affecting the country.
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