The Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel urged the communists of Sancti Spíritus to be swift in recruiting workers from private Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (Mipyme) to join the ranks of the only recognized Party in Cuba.
"We must be able to create grassroots structures in them as well, both for the Party and for the UJC, with appropriate growth and a greater political connection of those workers," said Díaz-Canel about this form of non-state management, according to the official site Cubadebate.
In the same meeting, the ruler demanded the communists of Sancti Spíritus an organization "from everyone to achieve different results by the end of the year."
A request that is running out of time, only three months left until the end of 2024, exposing the regime's inability to find solutions to the country's problems, especially when in the nine previous months they have not defined a precise formula to accomplish what they propose for the remainder of the year.
However, the president refers to the politicization of businesses that are under the careful scrutiny of the regime, due to the "irresponsible manner" in which some of these institutions are managed, as he pointed out last July to parliamentarians of the Economic Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power.
From that podium, Díaz-Canel insisted that his government had not planned a witch hunt against a specific form of management or ownership; however, the official discourse for some months now has been attacking Mipyme, especially those that import finished products or do not comply with price caps.
Alongside this, high-ranking Cuban party leaders do not hide their intention to politicize workers and private businesses on the island, as well as to recruit more members for the weakened political organizations in the country.
In his closing speech of the third ordinary session of the X Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) last July, Díaz-Canel threatened the Mipymes with a move to action, reaffirming his willingness to subject the activities of the "new economic actors" to state guidelines and centralized economic planning.
"Regarding our responsibilities in the uncertain and complex realm of the economy, it is necessary to acknowledge that in the effort to comply with the guidelines of the economic and social policy of the VIII Congress of the Party, while unblocking processes and promoting the formation of Mipymes, the demand for creating sufficiently robust and comprehensive regulatory frameworks to guide the functioning of this management form that was already operating in the economy, but without formal recognition, was not sufficiently firm," he noted.
The lack of regulation for the Mypimes, according to the ruler, caused chaos in the Cuban economy, driving up inflation and exacerbating inequality in the country.
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