According to the Prime Minister of the Cuban regime, the objective things are “mixing with subjective issues.”
Miami, United States. – The Prime Minister of the Cuban regime, Manuel Marrero Cruz, recognized Before governors and local authorities of the island that the official response to the crisis remains insufficient. “We are not acting yet as if we were at war,” he said in asking “to see how a crisis situation is directed and how one takes advantage of the opportunities that the crisis gives.”
The intervention, held at the monthly meeting with the territorial governments, was transmitted by Channel Caribe this Tuesday and was attended by Esteban Lazo Hernández and Salvador Valdés Mesa, both members of the political bureau, according to the television report itself.
The meeting was presented as an effort to “advance in the improvement of strategic management for territorial development in the midst of current complexities”, with emphasis on strengthening municipal autonomy, according to the Caribbean channel.
Marrero Cruz proposed to expand local faculties to attract investment and manage “even international” relationships, sustaining that they should not “be waiting for things to come from above”, although mechanisms, deadlines or implementation metrics were not detailed in the material released by the state channel.
In his diagnosis, the prime minister talked about a scenario where “objective things are mixing, real problems with subjective issues”, and mentioned among the factors The “electroenergetic situation”the “fuel themes” and “the lack of currency”, elements that, he said, “is[n] overcoming the ability of many paintings “to” look for alternative solutions. ”
He also reiterated the requirement of “work systems supported by the accountability of the paintings” and the “direct link with the base”, without the report required responsible, goals or verifiable results to date.
Valdés Mesa also intervened at the meeting: “For us today it is decisive and it is decisive that the territories play the role that corresponds to it, which is not about autonomy, which is to say sovereignty, not have dependency, and make decisions and improve the quality of life, resolve issues,” he said.
He also warned that municipal strengthening should not be “uploading more template” and subordinated it to “first” with “competent people.” The report does not include clarifications about what decisions will really be in the hands of local governments or on the limits of that “autonomy.”
On the other hand, those attending the meeting “analyzed thoroughly” the “default to the producers”, an “old problem” that “has failed to solve” despite “approved measures”, without exposed figures, chronograms or sanctions associated with that breach.
In addition, the report alluded to a “strategy of the Ministry of Construction” to “convert maritime containers into housing modules”, presented as “viable alternative for its economic efficiency, resistance and sustainability.” Nor were costs, constructive standards, areas of implementation or amount of homes planned.
According to Marrero Cruz himself, the meeting underlined the urgency of directing the crisis with logic of “war” and expanding the margin of municipal action, while marking discursive limits to the so vaunted “autonomy.”
