MIAMI, United States. – The Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN) of Cuba recognized that in the country there are “more than a million” cooking equipment pending repair due to the lack of spare parts.
According to a note from MINCIN quoted by the official station Radio Relojin the last two years, the Energy Saving Program has presented “effects due to insufficient financing, which has made it impossible to acquire spare parts and pieces.”
In mid 2019, Cuban official media announced the creation of repair brigades to give life to household appliances that had been delivered more than a decade ago as part of the so-called “Energy Revolution”.
In 2005, the massive distribution of multipurpose pressure cookers, rice cookers, stoves, electric heaters and other kitchen utensils began. The objective was to reduce fuel consumption at home. The National Assembly of People’s Power called 2006 the “Year of the Energy Revolution in Cuba”.
However, over time the Government has been unable to maintain the delivery to the people of “modern cooking modules instead of high-cost traditional fuels and harmful to health like kerosene”.
After more than ten years of use, most of the equipment sold to the population at subsidized prices show logical deterioration.
A report from CubaNet published end of 2020 revealed that The deterioration of electric cooking equipment due to years of use and its non-existent sale in stores, together with the lack of spare parts and the insufficiency of gas in the market for cooking, had caused many Cubans to have to cook with firewood. .
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