AREQUIPA, Peru – More than 146 tons of food were donated by the Algerian government to the Cuban regime last August to support “the difficult financial situation” on the island, according to official media reports. Cubadebate.
At the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment, the deputy minister for the sector, Déborah Rivas Saavedra, expressed her gratitude for what she described as an “important donation.”
In her statements, the official mentioned that the cargo was made up of food such as rice, oil, pasta and others. “All of them are essential in the diet of the Cuban population,” she stressed.
The donation arrived on the island by sea on July 22nd. the port of Marielwhere it was subsequently unloaded.
Rivas Saavedra thanked the President of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and his government for this donation offered to the dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, on May 9, during the technical stopover he made around those dates in this country.
The official discourse has echoed among its followers in other countries, who blindly believe in the government’s discourse and blame the embargo for the ills suffered by the people.
Despite frequent international donations, the crisis in Cuba does not seem to have an end in sight.
A recent report The independent Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) revealed that the food crisis is the main social problem in the country (72% of those surveyed by the NGO indicated this).
The study also indicates that in Cuba seven out of ten people have stopped eating breakfast, lunch or dinner due to lack of money or food shortages. Only 15% have been able to eat three meals a day without interruption.
For its part, the Cubadata pollster ensures that almost half of Cubans stopped eating at least one day in the second quarter of 2023 due to the severe food shortage on the island.
With no other alternatives, thousands of Cubans have opted to buy cheaper and less nutritious food, skip meals and, to a lesser extent, ask for help from family and friends. With these resources, those who suffer from the accelerated crisis survive. inflation and the shortage of supplies on the Island.
