CDMX, Mexico-. The Cuban broadcaster and journalist Javier Alejandro Brito Padilla denounced in their social networks the price increase in MLC staples like yogurt and coffee.
In addition to selling essentials in hard currency, when nationals charge in local currency, they now also spike the cost of food. In some cases even double it.
“Who decides the prices of MLC stores? What are they based on to do it? How is it understood that a Cuban coffee like La Indiana has gone from 3:05 p.m. to 9:25 p.m., all of a sudden?” Brito Padilla denounced through his Facebook profile.
The announcer says that citizens deserve at least an explanation for this price increase. However, in his own comments on his publication, he makes it clear that he knows that no one will take the trouble to explain to the population what is happening.
“We are talking about an increase of more than 6 dollars at a time for the 1kg package… And of a product in extreme demand in our population,” the communicator wrote.
Other products that increased their cost, Brito explains, is yogurt. A high consumption dairy especially for children.
“I forgot: more shocking was seeing the yogurt, which returned to the scene after months of disappearance, and the 10-liter bucket went from costing about 10 to more than 21 MLC (double and more),” lamented the Cuban.
Until the moment of publishing this note, his post had almost 150 comments. In most of them, other users complained of suffering the same scenario. Chicken, milk, ice cream, mincemeat also went up in price.
Roxana Romero commented that she had been in the Carlos III Havana store and that everything increased. The user specified that many were national products. She also questioned that the little that is marketed in the country is only available in foreign currency.
“Basic products ended up in those stores, they are not even a luxury but a necessity, and it is super difficult to buy the blessed MLC so that they also punish us, moreover, with a price increase,” the Cuban wrote.
On the other hand, Carlos Alberto de la O questioned where the income in MLC goes.
“My son, don’t force yourself. Nobody will explain anything to you. We live in a unipolar country. They. Only them and then they… Oh and very important, for their pockets,” said the user.
On October 16, 2019, the Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil announced on the Round Table program that they would begin to sell some products in foreign currency, but that they would be few and they would maintain the sale of most things in national currency.
Nine months later, despite Gil’s words, Ana María Ortega Tamayo, general director of Tiendas Caribe, presented 72 state-owned points of sale that would sell “high-end” food and cleaning products in MLC, as well as hardware products. Once again, Cuban officials claimed that they were temporary measures to deal with the economic crisis and that they would not expand. Since then the number of stores has not stopped growing.
According to them, the State’s intention was to capture foreign currency to be able to sell essential products in local currency. 2022 is over and that has not happened. One more lie.
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