A pregnant woman in Santiago de Cuba confronted a grocer over the distribution of spoiled eggs through the supply ration book.
"I don't want bad eggs, I don't want that rot," said the woman to the clerk who insisted they were just "old eggs." The video showing the mistreatment of the customer and the sale of expired food was posted by the Cuban opposition figure José Daniel Ferrer on X.
The incident is not an isolated case. Santiago de Cuba has been a recurring scene for this type of complaint. In November 2025, following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, reports emerged in the Abel Santamaría neighborhood about the distribution of spoiled picadillo specifically intended for children, pregnant women, and seniors over 65 years old.
The food crisis is worsening in Cuba
Nationwide egg production has collapsed from between 4 and 5 million units daily to just 1.2 million, a level worse than during the Special Period of the 1990s. The causes are systemic: feed shortages, energy deficits, deteriorated poultry infrastructure, and inefficiencies of the state model, exacerbated after the so-called economic "ordering" of 2021.
The regime imports 65 million eggs per month from the Dominican Republic, in addition to purchases from the United States and Colombia.
The consequences of receiving spoiled products go beyond just discomfort. In April 2025, in Artemisa, a family of six was poisoned after consuming rotten eggs from the rationed supply.
In the absence of effective institutional channels, social media has become the primary avenue for public denunciation.
In November 2025, the official Susely Morfa , an explanation that is contradicted by the very data from the state poultry system: the production collapse is due to decades of inefficiency, disinvestment, and the regime's centralized control over the economy.
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