La Dulce Habana, where a multitude of customers gather every day, has run out of sugar. This Friday, the famous candy store located at 25 and L, in the Habana Libre hotel buildingin the center of the Cuban capital, seemed too calm.
One of the employees had to repeat the same chant to everyone who came in and asked the same question: when are they going to take out cake?: “When there is sugar.” And when will be that? “I wish I knew when. At least there is no entrance to the store, and they still haven’t let us know,” said the worker at one of the few candy stores where you can still buy cakes of quality in national currency, although at high prices (the so-called “special cake” costs 3,000 pesos).
The few sweets on sale are made with prefabricated products, such as apples covered in chocolate cream (150 pesos), donuts also dipped in chocolate, or tartlets made with preserved fruit.
“The sugar thing is already a novel,” protested one of the women who left the store, frustrated.
“The sugar thing is already a novel,” protested one of the women who left the store, frustrated.
That the most emblematic raw material of the country for decades come to miss of the country for decades arouses the indignation of the people. A little less than a month ago, the Government announced that the forecasts for the delivery of sugar they were dire for 2023given the catastrophic results of the last harvest, so far the worst ever. The barely 480,000 tons of sugar produced out of the 911,000 forecast caused a deficit of 60,000 tons for national consumption and seriously affected exports. No improvement is in sight, because the current harvest 2022-2023 Follow the steps above.
Although the government announced in May 2022 that the sugar in the basket was guaranteed, food companies have been forced to negotiate a solution in the absence of the product.
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