MIAMI, United States. — The annual balance of the Cuban Ministry of Finance and Prices yielded a revealing figure: in 2022, nearly 75,000 fines for price violations were imposed in Havana.
At the meeting, held this Tuesday, the director of finance and prices of the capital, Grisel de la Nuez, pointed out that a large number of these fines still remain to be collected, equivalent to 275 million Cuban pesos.
In order to enforce the established rates and the timely payment of the infractions, the official indicated that an intensive preparation of the inspectorate has been carried out since the beginning of the years.
According to cubadebatede la Nuez acknowledged at the meeting that one of the main dissatisfactions of the population of the capital is the issue of price control, both wholesale and retail.
“It is useless to impose fines, if they are not collected,” said de la Nuez in the balance, which was chaired by the regime’s prime minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.
The senior Castro official indicated that “there are few effective actions to control” prices, one of the main complaints of the population in view of the functioning of the country’s internal trade.
“Many situations are occurring where even making the cost sheets taking the informal price of currencies as a reference, prices are being formed with profits up to three times higher,” said Marrero, who added that there are many businesses that do not produce, but They live from buying and selling because they raise the prices of the products.
Last Friday, the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel called the top staff of the Cuban regime to combat speculation and abusive prices on the island, which is plunged into an unprecedented inflationary crisis.
During a meeting of the Council of Ministers, the president said that it is necessary to go to a confrontation “against those who abuse, against those who speculate and against the illegals”, referring to the high prices at which food and services are sold in the country.
