MÉRIDA, Mexico.- The actor Cuban Raúl Enríquez Zerquera launched a sharp criticism on social networks about the situation in the country after listening to the interventions of leaders at the IX Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
In a post shared on his profile Facebookthe actor and theater director spoke about the alleged advances in the country, according to the statements of officials.
“What progress have we made? Because the perception that comes to us is that each day that passes go back even more,” he said on his social networks, while questioning the regime’s lack of transparency.
Shortcomings such as the disappearance of products from the basic basket – eggs, beans, chicken, coffee, milk for children and sugar -, instability in the supply of rice, minced meat, are evidence for Enríquez of the economic decline on the Island.
In his opinion, also the energy crisis, with deficits more than 1,300 MW each day and the worsening of the transportation crisis worsens the outlook.
“Public transportation is dying without any discussion and the issue of medications, even when they are regulated and by prescription, have ceased to exist. The abusive prices make fun of all approaches and rise excessively without caring about anything so that when this aspect is mentioned I can’t help but smile because I really appreciate it as a well-worn topic,” said Enríquez.
In this context, it is asked, officials should tell the truth to the people so that they “are prepared for what is appropriate.”
“Do not mention that we are patriots, that is more than demonstrated by the terrible situations we have faced. Do you know? Sometimes it sounds like demagogy and that is not good. There was also talk of changes that the people are crying out for. This aspect has been discussed repeatedly and so I ask myself again: When are they going to occur? When the frog grows hair?” he asked.
The nation, as he described, has never before been so “miserable” and so “devastated” as it is now, but
Even though the situation in the country seems irreversible, the regime’s Minister of Economy and Planning CubanJoaquín Alonso Vázquez, reported this Monday in the Economic Affairs Commission of the National Assembly that the Government foresees an increase of 1% in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2025.
This estimate is based, according to the official, on the “recovery of tourism and income from the main exportable items, as well as the revival of productive, agricultural and industrial activities, and social services to the population.”
During a balance of the 2024 economy, Alonso Vázquez argued that the country faced a complex scenario marked by “the economic war, the international inflationary spiral, the prolongation of the multidimensional crisis derived from COVID-19, the insufficient collection of income in currencies, high debt, financial restrictions, energy limitations and macroeconomic imbalances.”
