While scarce food and electricity, the regime is associated with a Chinese company to make flip flops, showing its disconnection with the reality of the people.
Madrid, Spain.- While Cuba faces one of the most serious humanitarian crises in its history, with blackouts of up to 20 hours a day, generalized shortage of food and medicines, and an unprecedented mass migration, the regime has found a new “priority”: manufacture flip.
According to the official site CubadebateAt the beginning of July, the Mixed Company Duonex SA was constituted in Havana, an alliance between the Cuban Society Industrias Nexus SA and the Chinese company Hangzhou Iunke Industrial Development Co. Ltd., with the aim of boosting the light industry … producing flip flops, boots and belts.
The plant will operate at the Tecnosime headquarters, in the Havana Municipality of Rule, and according to the official note, it aspires to meet the national demand for footwear and expand towards export. It is not a food factory, or medication, or electric transformers. It is literally a solar flip flops industry: the project includes photovoltaic panels so that production does not depend on the already collapsed Cuban Electric Red.
The model was qualified as an “umbrella scheme”, where different production lines are integrated under the same business structure. For its part, the Cuban government provides infrastructure, and China puts technology, designs and molds. In a ruined economy, the regime is still clinging to the formulas of “productive chain” and “technological transfer”, this time applied to the sandals industry.
The products to be manufactured include protective boots, clothing, sports shoes, wallets, belts and plastic molds. The elaboration of plastic buckets and brushes is also contemplated. None of these items, it should be noted, resolves the deep food or energy emergency that the population suffers.
The disconnection between the priorities of the people and those of the State is increasingly evident. While citizens cry out for urgent solutions to hunger, inflation and blackouts, the regime responds with flip flops.
