Havana/In the midst of a 26 -hour blackout of which the official press does not give date, in the Jobabo Commerce and Gastronomy Company, in Las Tunas, 250 kilograms of foods destined for the population were spoiled. The problem justified before a Local station The director of the company, was that the current cut “took them with little fuel in the group [electrógeno]”And one of the refrigerators was broken.
As explained by Carlos Labrada Rodríguez to Radio Cabaiguán, the products were receiving a “fridge’s blow” to keep them frozen and “with the Pon and Quita [de la corriente] The starting valve failed ”, so the team stopped refrigerating. The workers immediately noticed the problem and began to transfer the food from the front to other trade and gastronomy refrigerators without noticing that the refrigerator bottom was not working either.
“From half back I was not cooling and when we realized that same day we were reviewing, taking all those measures, those products [ya] They had a coloration that is not customary, ”he said.
“We quickly call hygiene, and the companions came and determined that they were not suitable for consumption”
According to Labrada, aware of the gravity with which the loss of state resources is treated, at all times the protocol was followed. “We quickly call hygiene, and the companions came and determined that they were not suitable for consumption,” he says, regretting not having noticed the fridge’s failure before and relieved food.
In total, 42.76 kilograms of croquette dough, 72 of minced, 21 of boneless meat, mortadella, 13.55 cheese, 10 shrimp and 15 beef. To that, he continued listing the manager, we had to add several kilograms of beef – a 50, judging by the total of lost foods, although the figure was not offered – that had been confiscated by the police and delivered to the company. This product, he adds, “already comes with problems because (…) they confiscate it at a time of the morning and deliver it at an afternoon or night.” After being further without refrigeration, it could no longer be consumed.
If the loss did not rise to more, he says, it was because the products destined to the elaboration of food, which were in the first half of the refrigerator, were sent to other refrigerators or were directly prosecuted.
Questioned by the station about the fate of the food spoiled, Labrada alleges that it was valued to donate or deliver them to people who needed them for animal consumption. However, “hygiene inspectors said that since they were not in a percentage [alto] Of decomposition, people were going to consume it. And then they determined to take them for the stream and there they were incinerated, “he laments.” They could have donated. ”
“It is really painful that these products have spoiled, more today as the situation of the people is”
Nor is it the first time that the company loses food because of the blackouts. According to the manager, similar situations have occurred in previous years. “It is really painful that these products have spoiled, more today as the situation of the people is,” he said.
Asked about the measures that the state plans to take to ensure that it does not happen again, Labrada explained that daily records are already made in the refrigerators to ensure that they all work and turn on the generator group, which consumes 3.8 liters of fuel per hour. “Now we have fuel to, at least every two hours, two and a half hours, give a flange to the products we have” (about 30 liters per day).
However, everything Marche has planned does not depend only on the company. CUPET must also fulfill its part. “In the case of fuel, we are requesting, and when we have 100, 120 liters,” he says. The problem is that “sometimes they delay, it takes, because that has to be well with the existence they have of fuel properly in the entity”, as expected in a country with energy deficit due to oil shortage.
The official press, however, insists that among the causes there was a “human carelessness” that affected “the financial indicators of the entity. The repercussions transcend the business: the waste of food hits the salary of the workers, whose income can be diminished by these results, and generates a deep discomfort in the community that mostly has limitations to access meat products, whose current cost is high.
So far no sanctions have been announced for the workers of the Tunera company, although these incidents are rarely end up without at least indicating a person in charge. The manager stressed at all times that, although it could have been avoided, the loss of food was a mistake caused by the blackouts and a technical damage. “The commission of us is to give food to the sovereign, to the people, who really for that we work,” he reiterated.
The repeated explanations of those responsible do not seem in vain, given the consequences that the strip can lead
The repeated explanations of those responsible do not seem in vain, given the consequences that the stropic can lead. Last August, five managers of the Agricultural Supply Company of Sancti Spíritus were condemned to long prison sentences for “economic crimes” that caused losses worth 100 million pesos.
As he said then Escambraytwice between 2023 and 2024 “the fridge of meat products aimed at internal food suffered mechanical technical damage, which caused the necessary level of cold to be reached for the conservation of stored foods.”
Managers knew about the team’s failure, but “they did not implement effective actions” to save meat products, which caused a loss of more than three million pesos. This year they were tried for “breach of the duty to preserve goods in economic entities.”
The highest penalty, 20 years in prison, received it The director General of the state. The other defendants were the Director of the Base Business Unit (EU) Marketing and Services of the Company, sentenced to 18 years in prison; the commercial director, who received 16 years of deprivation of liberty; The legal advisor, sentenced to 10 years, and the previous general director, who held the position in 2023, who received two years and six months of deprivation of liberty, “subsidized by correctional work with international internment.”
