Marino Murillo, architect of the Ordinance Task, had warned last February that 426 entities could close the year with losses. The reality as of September was higher with the record of 541, according to the official gazette. Invasive. Which “represents 30% of the Cuban business network.”
The forecast of Murillo, who is nicknamed as the czar of economic reforms in Cuba by the foreign press, occurred while the Ceballos de Ciego de Ávila Agroindustrial Company, considered one of the few jewels in the state’s crown, reported red numbers in January 2021. Its products quadrupled in price and demand fell. With no profits, at that time the 5,000 workers received the basic salary.
Ceballos was joined eight months later by another 22 Avilanian state entities with “expenses exceeding their income” with a total loss of 438,000,000 pesos. Among the companies are: La Cuba, Ruta Invasora, Acopio, Cárnico, Farmacias y Ópticas, Integral Agropecuaria, Pesquera Industrial and Biopower SA
At the end of October, the Minister of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil, acknowledged that between 2020 and 2021, the Cuban economy presented “a really hard hit”, with a loss of 13% of GDP.
Ceballos was joined eight months later by another 22 Avilanian state entities with “expenses exceeding their income”
At that time, Gil recognized the food production situation as “very complex.” In almost all lines there is non-compliance, he accepted, and in that sense he cited rice, corn, beans and milk, with 63 million liters below the expected.
In Ciego de Ávila, the Porcine Company reported losses close to 74,000,000 pesos, due, said its director Yandira Sánchez Fuentes, to the low production of pigs. Already in 2020 this company had problems, it owed more than 6,800 tons of feed, food made with cassava, sweet potato or taro, to those who are dedicated to breeding.
The lack of pork production is evident in the market and the menu. Cubans are offered products made from flour and vegetable protein such as croquettes, ham, hamburger dough and mincemeat.
The Ordering Task has been evidenced and questioned due to the lack of results, as in June 488 entities were counted with losses, “a figure higher than that estimated in the design,” the publication reads.
In Ciego de Ávila, the Porcine Company reported losses close to 74,000,000 pesos, due to the low production of pigs
“The order has not yet fulfilled its mission. Meanwhile, the queues and resellers are at ease. There was only one isolated operation in the Eklo Store in Playa (Havana) and the Comptroller of the Republic? Good, thank you. Nothing , which we continue in the same “, explained a user about the impact of the Ordering Task that he published Cubadebate on October 18.
Volodia, who said he was a state worker, commented: “This project, the only thing that has done is to pass on to ordinary Cubans the consequences of the economic ups and downs of the state, freeing it from assuming them.”
Another case is that of Lácteo, which failed to cover the plans in September and presented a debt of “almost 8,000,000 pesos” due to the lack of production of “200 tons less cheese, 150 gallons less ice cream, 20 tons less butter. ” To this must be added the government default in payments in foreign currency to producers.
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