The precarious situation faced by Cubans became evident in the large queue in Alamar to buy rice.
“An entire town behind a truck”; “Hunger dominates society... This whole crowd behind a truck to buy rice,” wrote activist Irma Lidia Broek on Facebook.
The images capture the desperation and need of Cubans amid food shortages: people desperately running after a truck.
These scenes are becoming increasingly common in the daily lives of Cubans.
In early November, the sale of sausages at a store in Santiago de Cuba ended in a violent episode of repression when police agents sprayed pepper spray on mothers with children, amid a desperate crowd trying to get food.
It happened in a Micro 3 store, located in the El Salao neighborhood, designated as the only sales point in the area for a batch of sausages, where hundreds of people gathered, at a time when various viruses, including dengue and chikungunya, are spreading throughout the eastern city and the entire country.
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