Havana/Confluence of municipalities, intersects avenues, Four roads It is more than the colossal building that bears its name, it is also the denomination that an area receives where trade has traditionally been the reason for being and the livelihood of its residents. Now, all those who pass close notice that the market that gives life to the neighborhood has closed. “When it reopens it will be in dollars,” says a security employee to 14ymedio.
With practically all the accesses covered with metal doors, from the department store, only a local gas is running, a place on the upper floor for the sale of household supplies. The rest, including the supermarket, has already entered that race track that inevitably leads to dollarization, a path that several of the most important businesses in Havana have traveled. The freely convertible currency (MLC), in which their goods were offered, failed to maintain the wide rooms full of products.
The news was seen coming. A month ago, he set foot “in dollars” a butcher shop owned by the Richmeat firmby virtue of the agreement signed with Cimex to manage a whole complex of shops with the name of the favorite, as some of its products are called.
In recent years it gave grim
In recent years it gave Grima to travel the stores located in the imposing property that the entire apple occupies and check the empty spaces, the desert shelves and their lamps off. The breath of Fula He snorted in the never of what was once the main market in the Cuban capital. With its two horns of abundance carved on the facade, the prosperous cornucopia was not reflected to inside and more unbalanced. A commercial anemia that ended affecting the entire area.
“Here we live from the resale and the trapicheo,” he does not hide to say a close phosphorer repair that, between injecting gas into a lighter or changing the stone so that he makes a good spark, proclaims his tiny instant glue tubes, some packages of powder soda and “the shaving machines that can not be missing.” When the market offer declined, “people stopped coming from other neighborhoods to look for hardware supplies, chicken or painting boxes for their homes,” he tells this newspaper. “Less customers, less business.”
Commercial weakness hit everyone. To the old man who took advantage of the red light of the traffic light to clean the windshield of those who arrived to buy a bathtub, the santera that threw the cards on the sidewalk in front and fell more customers when the refrigerators of the carnage and the young In the store it seemed very high. As the voice extended that the mall was “Pelao”, everyone’s economic tickets were also drying.
Now, the hope is that the dollar also revives the one known as the Single Market. “The next one Battle of four roads It will be among people who have dollars, “the phosphoreras repairer Ironizes. But it is hard to believe that, as in November 2019, an inflammated crowd returns to violate the doorsruns upstairs, shake the shelves and drag with the most precious merchandise. There are not so many Cubans with Greennor have so many lyncoln in their pockets.
