One day after 14ymedio will report the return to restriction by municipality of residence in the sale in pesos in the Plaza de Carlos III, the official press confirm the measurement for the entire capital starting this Thursday 21.
The decision has been made, he acknowledges Tribune of Havana this Tuesday, “taking into account the existing situation with the availability of products and with the aim of making sales more viable, achieving greater equity and therefore reducing the agglomeration of people in establishments.” That is, because of the scarcity and to avoid the long queues.
From now on, warns the local newspaper, “all the products that are sold will be controlled and regulated”, and in the establishments of Cimex and Caribe the “scanning system” of the identity card will be re-established.
The official note details that in the Cuatro Caminos market, only residents of Old Havana and Cerro will be able to buy; in the Plaza de Carlos III, those of Centro Habana and Plaza de la Revolución, and in El Pedregal, those of La Lisa.
The disproportion of the number of stores in Plaza de la Revolución, Centro Habana or Old Havana, for example, is enormous compared to Arroyo Naranjo, La Lisa or Alamar
Precisely the Cuatro Caminos shopping center was the scene, on April 7, of a queue that reached a length of almost 20 blocksand, two weeks earlier, the area was heavily guarded by the security forces, coinciding with an internet blackout that Etecsa attributed to an “energy failure”.
The return of this regulation, which was in force to prevent the spread of covid-19 and was repealed at the beginning of November, could be fatal for the Havana municipalities farthest from the center. The disproportion of the number of stores in Plaza de la Revolución, Centro Habana or Old Havana, for example, is enormous compared to Arroyo Naranjo, La Lisa or Alamar.
“The other time they did this, it brought a lot of need,” confirms a Luyanó neighbor to this newspaper. “In the two little shops that are in my neighborhood, everyone had to buy yes or yes and you had to spend three or four days in a queue.” During that time, this woman chose not to leave her house and order the week’s groceries from her son, who lives in Centro Habana and went to Luyanó on foot, because, due to the pandemic, transportation was also restricted.
Another woman from Havana questioned: “When all of Key West has to go to Carlos III the day they have to buy, imagine if they are going to be able to buy a quarter of it. Many people are not even going to go.”
“They don’t do anything that works,” protested a boy in the queue of Carlos III this Tuesday. “Every time they do something, it’s not looking forward, but looking back, like crabs.”
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