Matanzas/While a fly permanes insistently on the granite counter, the two employees of the La Real winery, in the Matancero neighborhood of Pueblo Nuevo, try to remember when it was the last time they dispatched oil. In the middle of the month, the wooden shelves are still naked and in the old cash register there are hardly 200 pesos in the background, distributed in 10 tickets.
“For some time our daily work has been reduced to selling milk for children under seven years. The sale of regulated products here is already something strange,” he admits to 14ymedio One of the dependents.
The official news comes from a distance. This Monday – reported the newspaper Girón the provincial official Rebeca Fundora Águila– They would begin in Cárdenas and Colón the deliveries of pending peas since May, along with those of June. A pound of sugar would also be distributed from the August quota in municipalities such as Limonar, Los Arabos, Martí and Colón. And in the Union of Reyes, Cárdenas and Pedro Betancourt, the backward childhood compote would be distributed since June.
We have to clean with the broom and floor fraz
But in the real the neighbors no longer ask. The small cash system, to request cash, does not work and the QR code stuck to the wall is just a dazzled stamp. “People complained about alterations in the weighing of the mandados. Well, at least that problem is solved. We have nothing to put in the balance,” the administrator ironizes, who has reduced their role to inform customers that nobody knows when a product will arrive.
With the threat of rain, one of the workers closes the padlock of the fence to prevent them from entering the mud full shoes. “We have to clean with the broom and floor frazada that we bring from the house, because if we wait for them to give us cleaning implements, the dirt would reach the ceiling by joining the comment,” he complains. Although the official schedule extends the opening until seven in the afternoon, no later than six the two employees leave.
Sitting in wooden banks, throughout the day they only have to comment news, the plot of some soap opera and the last video they saw in Tiktok: the powdered milk, they say, it is in the stores of the wholesale company of food products (PACK) but nobody knows when it will reach the premises. “Instead of being the center of the neighborhood as the government asked, the wineries are peeled,” laments one of them.
The administrator, just over a year of retirement, admits that she no longer has strength to protest. Recognize that abandonment is structural. “Commerce workers have to put from our pockets to the lights to light the few times that put the current during the day,” he says. She has seen how the regulated family basket has been reduced to virtually nothing.
This will be another month without coffee, without rice, without hope. “It is hungry, it is not a lie,” says the woman, while the padlock squeaks when closing on the empty door of the Real.
