MIAMI, United States. — The Prime Minister of the Cuban regime, Manuel Marrero Cruzadmitted that in Cuba he has not been able to “satisfy the demand of the people” in terms of food production, a situation that keeps the island in an unprecedented crisis.
During a meeting in Camagüey with the press team of the Cuban PresidencyMarrero admitted that there are problems with agriculture and blamed for it the forms of private management, which, he said, are responsible for 80% of agricultural production.
“In terms of food production, it is possible to satisfy the demand of the people,” said Marrero, who assured that “the country’s agricultural food production has a structure whose 80 percent is produced by private forms of management” that “are not state companies ”.
The communist leader maintained that the Cuban State has fulfilled its commitment to hand over land in usufruct and insinuated that the productive insufficiency is not the fault of the authorities.
“The lands were handed over, and this is still being done, to the people, to the cooperatives (…); and then, who is responsible? Who does the people claim for the guarantee of food?”, questioned the prime minister of the regime.
Marrero also acknowledged problems in contracting certain productions, such as milk, one of the foods that has been in short supply on the island for years.
“In the country, milk is produced that is not contracted, that is diverted and that does not go to the children and the people who need it,” said the prime minister of the regime, whose statements were reproduced by the state press.
Regarding the serious economic crisis that the country is going through, Manuel Marrero stressed that the Cuban people knew that 2023 was going to be a tough year due to the “increased blockade”, the post-pandemic economic crisis, the “determination of the enemies of the Revolution in destroy it”, and “to the crisis in Europe itself”.
