The Dolce & Gabbana glasses that Lis costs exceed 270 dollars, an unattainable figure for the Cuban people, which struggles to survive and get the most basic.
Madrid, Spain.- Lis Cuesta, wife of the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, has monitored looks during the official visit From the couple to Vietnam, one of Havana’s main allies in Asia.
In the disseminated images of this trip, Cuesta appears wearing glasses from the Italian firm Dolce & Gabbana, whose price in the international market exceeds $ 270. The fact stands out hurtful in the face of the crisis that Cuba is going through, where most citizens barely manage to meet basic needs.
According to the representative rate of the informal market (TRMI) prepared by the independent medium The toucha dollar currently equals 410 Cuban pesos, the only real market to which the population accesses. To this type of exchange, the glasses that it costs to exhibit ((of 273 dollars) would have a cost equivalent to 111,930 Cuban pesos. To dimension this figure, it is enough to point out that a worker with the minimum wage of 2,100 pesos per month would have to allocate almost four and a half years of full salary to be able to buy them. Even with an average salary, which is around 6,000 pesos, it would be necessary for a year and average.
The contrast is even more shocking because the images of Cuesta with their luxury glasses have circulated on the same days when The school year began on the island, marked by the complaints of the parents unable to pay the essential For your children.
A school backpack can cost about 7,000 pesos, a pair of shoes exceeds 10,000 and a simple package of books for books and notebooks is sold at 150 pesos each. These prices, unattainable for much of the population, reflect the suffocating distance between official discourse and daily life.
It is not the first time that the ruling elite arouses discomfort to exhibit luxury symbols. On previous occasions, criticisms have focused on Manuel Anido Cuesta, Son of Lis Cuesta and Daughters of Díaz-Canel, photographed with a portfolio of the German brand Montblanc valued in thousands of dollars.
These types of gestures generate outrage in a country where a good part of the population goes hungry, lacks basic medicines and lives in housing in danger of collapse, while the regime insists that in Cuba “there is no money.” Among the comments that circulate on social networks, some like this summary well the general feeling: “The same amount of money that is left over is the same amount of shame that they lack.”
The image of Lis costs, accompanying Díaz-Canel on each international trip And wearing accessories such as the Dolce & Gabbana glasses, it is a reminder of the abyss that separates the power from the hardships suffered by Cuban citizens.
