A Cuban resident on the island published a video on TikTok this Sunday in which, with evident irony, she feigns not to understand why her compatriots complain about there being nothing to eat in Cuba, while holding and striking the state store's bread, which is so hard it sounds like wood.
The clip, lasting just 14 seconds, was posted by the user @bia_bhpp and has gathered over 325,900 views, 15,500 likes, and 1,443 comments in just a few days.
I am Cuban living in Cuba and I don’t understand the people who say there's nothing to eat in Cuba. What is this? What is this? Just look at how wonderful it is, listen to how it sounds.
The video adds to a long series of complaints about the collapse of the Cuban food system, which has particularly affected access to regulated bread in various provinces of the country.
In some areas, Cubans have gone through more than three weeks without receiving bread from the store, a situation that has caused outrage and frustration among the population.
In Villa Clara, the authorities restricted the sale of regulated bread since February to only those under 13 and over 65, leaving the majority of the population excluded.
When the bread arrives, it is also not a reason for celebration: citizens have reported loaves that are almost symbolic in size, nearly the size of an egg, which many interpret as a covert form of theft from the people.
The scarcity of supplies is compounded by the deterioration of infrastructure: images circulated on social media have shown wood and charcoal stoves in production centers, a scene that reflects the level of precariousness reached in the production of basic food items in Cuba.
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