It seems, due to that complicated style that betrays them, even a cruel joke designed by them that, attempting monetary unification, at the beginning of the “Ordering Task” they eliminated the CUC, created the MLC and resumed the use of the dollar.
HAVANA, Cuba.- It has to be a rehearsal for April Fool’s Day, because the television appearance of the minister president of the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) has no other interpretation than a joke, that they drank the whiskey of 31 in advance and the drunkenness led them to say stupid things like that that, to eliminate two types of exchange rates, it is necessary to create a third. That to “correct a distortion” you have to continue distorting.
It would seem, due to that complicated style that gives them away, even a cruel joke designed by them that, attempting monetary unification, at the beginning of the “Ordering Task” they eliminated the CUC by creating the MLC and resuming the use of the dollar, both in cash and in the dark and distorted forms that the greenback acquires when it is absorbed by GAESA and converted into “virtual money”, or rather, scammed money: without the possibility of being extracted, without accumulating interest, without being able to use it in all transactions and without can be transferred abroad.
Not 48 hours had passed since she warned that the conditions for establishing an exchange market had not yet been created, that they needed to carefully study the details for the implementation and establishment of a floating rate, which was not a matter of one day to the next, when the same official appeared with a “hasty version” of the matter, although this time with her gaze fixed on the teleprompter, as if a couple of minutes before someone had given her or Humberto López (more trained in sticking to the script with drama), what I had to read.
I still wonder if, now that they have decided to openly flirt with the dollar and even shamelessly emulate the rate of theTouchchoosing December 17 as the moment of the “good news” was for the same reasons that Raúl Castro did when he decided to announce his flirtations with the “enemy”, or if the date has more to do with an obligatory association of ideas that results from announcing the fulfillment of a “promise” (that of finally establishing a floating rate) on the day in which the devotees of San Lázaro make a pilgrimage before the saint to pay what they made to him.
Without a doubt, there is some “symbolism” in such a hasty announcement, as well as in the botched writing that resulted, full of detours, repetitions and incomprehensible terms for that majority of Cubans who, without any ability to acquire or obtain a dollar, an MLC, even a bill larger than the 10 Cuban pesos, were waiting for this time they would remember them, because they have been receiving only bad news from the government (especially the BCC) for too many years. And yes, the very HPs did remember, although only to play that joke on us that the two from yesterday will now be three, to make our lives more complicated.
I also think that it could have been another distraction when they run out of options to entertain us. The minister’s improvised television intervention was like a far-fetched resource, an act of desperation when rumors became too strong about the possibility that the prime-time address to the Nation, announced by President Donald Trump, would include a declaration of war on Venezuela.
Because the thing about the dollars and the informal rate, about eliminating the “evil Toque” and solving our miserable lives with that alone, matters to us much more than the fate of Maduro (and those who have matured fortunes in his shadow). For this reason, while we “chose” to listen to the lady from the Bank, the communists made sure that we did not heed that fearful declaration of war that kept them so nervous this Wednesday, especially when such news, about an allied dictatorship that is falling, about the certainty that it is possible to overthrow it, could overly excite those who feel more than “enthusiastic” about the blackouts, the hunger, the diseases, the bad news, one after another.
So, nothing better than “good news” that, due to the tangled content, you don’t know if it is good or bad, who it benefits or harms, if it will actually be to fix things and if there will finally be dollars for everyone. If it will be another distortion to correct when they don’t want to use the word “failure.”
Already on social networks there are people asking about the exchange rate group to which they belong. Yes to one, two or three. People suggesting that the dollars be delivered by CDR or by union so that it does not happen like with the 1,100 dollars that they have not been able to collect because they do not know which hotel to go to.
Luckily there are many more who have not been fooled. Those who suspected the coincidences in the television interventions and the schedules more than the dates. Those who know that, not being able to fight the informal market (because, in addition to being impossible, it would be going against themselves, as hypocritical participants in that market), they have wanted to make us drink three cups of lies so that we can go around making our mouths and floating in numbing smoke while Maduro is overthrown, and thus, far from understanding that with this fall the chances of the Cuban dictatorship falling increase, let us wait like fools for that “floating rate” that will solve nothing.
