Tabacuba opened on Thursday the “Tobacco store” In Pinar del Río, a space where vegueros can Buy in freely convertible currency (MLC) from machetes and scales to cementelectric generators and screws.
The premises, located on the Las Ovas road, seeks to ensure that the payment in MLC received by the producers “has purchase capacity”, he explained Marino MurilloPresident of the Tabacuba Business Group.
The idea is to reproduce the model in other areas of the province and in the center of the country, and arrives precisely at the time when MLC declines in the Cuban informal market.
During his speech, Murillo stressed that this initiative is part of a strategy in order to ensure that the MLC with which producers is remunerated has real purchase power.
He also said that similar stores could be opened in other areas of Pinar del Río and in the central region of the country.
This new space adds to other recent tabacuba actions to “Encourage” production in a key sector of the Cuban economy.
It is not the first time that we seek to offer alternatives to spend the MLC, a currency that has been losing value – of a record of 310 pesos in May 2024, fell to 205 today.
In fact, At the end of August the company delivered six modern Mercedes-Benz to producers prominent as “stimulus for their results.”
According to the authorities, the store represents a step in strengthening the tobacco sector in the province, although it also puts on the table the debate on inequalities and priorities in the use of resources within the island.
