Cuba has run out of paper without paper to print the rationed market notebooks 2022. There are “delays in the importation of raw material for printing,” as argued in a post of the Ministry of Internal Trade. What delayed the “preparation and distribution” of the document, essential to buy the subsidized basic basket.
Until the issuance of the new notebooks is reestablished, the brief statement reads, in the western and central provinces that of 2021 will be used. And to avoid confusion, “the products purchased will be crossed out” before making the annotations of the products. in “the lines available in the sheets for January and February” of 2022.
The number 22 will be specified “in the annotations, to signify the year to which they correspond, then the product, the quantity to be dispatched and the date of purchase” and that the delivery of the new notebooks “should not exceed January 30, 2022 “.
In the absence of more precise details, Roberto wondered: “In the case of milk and bread, how will it be recorded? If that is daily and the corresponding boxes are full.”
The information was replicated last Friday on the Facebook wall of the Government of the province of Camagüey, where users showed their annoyance. “How things are and how they look for the future, I think that with the space left over from 2021, they can use the same notebook until 2025 and thus save imported paper. What a milestone of a gentleman system,” said Ulises González.
“Not even the money is enough for the thin notebook,” Yurito Mestre lamented, “what awaits the supply?”
“Not even the money is enough for the thin notebook,” Yurito Mestre lamented, “what awaits the supply?” Meanwhile, Gloria María, stated: “For what they give, it would be better if they took it away.”
“There is no paper for the ration cards, but is there money to import high-end cars?”, Said Yoaen, originally from Sancti Spíritus.
In the province of Artemisa, where also it was made known about the measure, there were reactions. “God, we don’t have any paper for the supply book,” wrote Elisabet Veloz. “Something as simple as that, what to say about food for this 2022.”
Implemented in 1962, the rationed market has marked the lives of several generations of Cubans. Although over the years the variety and quantity of the products offered has been decreasing significantly, the State spends more than 1,000 million pesos a year in subsidies for these foods that barely last a third of the month.
During the public debates on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines promoted by the Communist Party, in 2010 and 2011, the possible elimination of the supply book was the issue that provoked the most comments and fears in the population. Then, its end seemed imminent but the economic crisis and the pandemic reinforced its presence.
Notepad it became essential to buy, even in the free sale stores and now it is mandatory to present to purchase products such as frozen chicken, vegetable oil and other basic foods in the markets in Cuban pesos that operate in parallel to the rationed market.
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