Could it be that they sold the Island to the Chinese, the Russians, or even the aliens, for a social experiment?
HAVANA.- with the dollar at 500 Cuban pesos in the informal market, the false profiles and their publications return with that familiar smell of botched cybercrias, to make us believe that, in a dollarized country, where more than 90 percent of the inhabitants earn their salaries in Cuban pesos – a currency devoid of value – it is impossible for it to skyrocket like this. They ignore that almost one hundred percent of essential products are sold in foreign currency and where, to make matters worse, a formal and realistic exchange market has not yet been implemented. They are contradicting that fantasy triumphalism with which Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz has inflated his luggage to use it as a disguise on his tour of Asia.
A campaign to which the “mipymeros” They like to join in, while avoiding confronting those who actually suffocate them with taxes and obstacles, with price caps and demonizing campaigns. They do them a favor by making them appear as victims, as “heroes of the economy” who came to save it and not to make a fortune in complicity with the dictatorship. They are so opportunistic that they seek to take advantage of a fleeting boycott, a slight artificial decline in the currency market to grab low prices and later, when the dollar resumes its rise, raise prices “justifiably.”
I do not doubt that, along with cyber-clarias and astute merchants of “continuity”, the regime, as it did sneakily during the previous campaign, has unleashed a few of its professional speculators to sell cheap dollars around to create the sensation that they are going down and unleash panic among some fools who did not learn from the previous experience.
They made good use of it on that occasion, they left with their pockets full and now they are returning to harvest to, perhaps as soon as December, go for 600 to 1. Perhaps with the goal of reaching 1000, if necessary. Today it is no secret to anyone that the “informal foreign exchange market” is dominated by the same people who have delayed too much the establishment of a true formal market with that floating rate, which from floating so much has been left adrift.
Many resellers have warned about the reality of an “illegal” market operated from power, and that, beyond the economic conditions that generate the rise of the currency, could be using the increase in the dollar – which is the currency in which companies are obligatorily supported – to force the closure of all those MSMEs and businesses that are annoying to them, now that they have discovered in external aid that gold vein that they once imagined obtaining by playing “private initiatives” in a context of thaw with the United States.
That went very badly for them not only because the dollars came back out where they came in, due to the natural flow between owners and suppliers—most of them established outside of Cuba and who operate their businesses through front men whom they pay with a minimal part of the profits—but because the economic opening implied, in the long run, a political opening that they were not willing to allow.
Today it is more profitable for them—in terms of hoarding the million-dollar foreign aid that governments, international organizations and NGOs offer—to project the image of a country ruined by the crisis, a country victim of a “blockade,” with a population decimated by hunger and disease. And MSMEs are the distorting, noisy element that, importing so many tons of food, medicine, cars, plus a long etcetera of merchandise from the United States, dismantle that discourse with their own dynamics. A speech that allows the Cuban regime to put on the disguise of mendicants, and increase in GAESA accounts those millions that they do not get even in an extreme situation like the current one, where in a few days the health emergency will be lethally combined with the energetic and the meteorological one.
A potential catastrophe situation that does not worry them, because the merchants of “continuity” will emerge from it with more external aid and donations, with more dollars. And at the same time with fewer MSMEs, because it is about killing several birds with a single stone, and making unproductivity, failures and “blockade” the most profitable national product.
When one projects the new campaign against the current chaotic scenario, plagued by internal crises in all dimensions, it is impossible not to realize that there are no intentions to improve anything, that everything that comes “from above” does so to further complicate our lives in the short or long term. To exterminate us?
Could it be that they sold the Island to the Chinese, the Russians, or even the aliens, for a social experiment? Could it be that it is they themselves, the communists or the military elite that owns the country, who are playing to martyr the guinea pigs that they have turned us Cubans into, both those outside and those inside? Because there is no other way to explain so many obstacles, blockades, gag laws, misinformation, “errors”, unpopular economic packages, ridicule, indifference and institutional abandonment. Too much mediocrity accumulating as “strategies” to “build a socialism” in which they themselves do not want to live.
