SLP, Mexico.- The announcement of the Cuban regime that will open throughout the country Stores that operate exclusively in dollars Americans (USD), as part of a process to partially dollarize the national economy, has caused the population among the population, who wonders what salary the products that sell there will pay.
Before a question of Cubanet In social networks about the opinion that aroused the measure, many Internet users agreed that they will starve in hunger in the midst of a disadvantage context for them.
“I’m going to starve,” several wrote. Others also described the decision.
An Internet user kept repairing that the opening of stores throughout the country caused more inequalities and completely forgot the retirees, those who carried out “volunteer works on Sundays, sappings, tunnels in the 80s, yield guards, marches and acts of different kinds, internationalist combatants of Angola, and today they have anything. ”
“A lifetime of working to live as homeless. Because with their retirement it does not even give them to buy a bread every two days and if that were not enough they open stores in a currency with which the State does not pay you. What we are talking about, gentlemen, we have to have principles, values. Where is the equity and justice for which all these people fought so much, ”he concluded.
According to others, it is a way in which the regime intends to “live from exile, living in the United States, that is what the Cuban regime wants,” and emphasized: “He who does not have a family in the USA cannot buy in those stores ”.
For other people, it is nothing more than continuing to make economic errors and re -travel for a period of shortage and increasing essential products. They also repaired the hypocrisy of having imprisoned people for having dollars to now receive the currency even in state stores.
“Well previously they put you in prison for having a dollar. Now the one who is not careful does not put him imprisoned, ”said someone.
This MiRérgés, regime officials announced that the measure of opening dollar stores throughout the country was a “strategy” to face the current economic crisis.
Alberto Javier Quiñones Betancourt, vice president of the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC), explained that the reintroduction of the USD in cash in certain shops responds to the need for faster currency. It will be taken into account that the establishments have the minimum conditions necessary to guarantee the safety and control of this currency.
He also added that it was an “option” so that people who have dollars can put them based on “acquiring certain products”, at a time like this in which the conditions exist.
“At other times there have been other conditions and other measures have been taken. Each scenario is different, ”said the official to justify The continuous changes of inefficient policies In the national economy.
Sale in dollars of essential products was divlgated at the end of 2024 when they opened A supermarket located 3rd and 70in the municipality of Playa, Havana, which only admitted currencies. The center was supplied with products that are scarce in the country and that not even in MLC it was common to find them.
For Cuban economist Pedro Monreal, the regime has only further amplified economic distortions due to a cluster of “poorly connected measures.”
Dollarization is a rational response to uncertainties economic and political, he said, and explained that currencies replace basic money functions that do not fulfill the Cuban weight well. The alleged “partial dollarization” does not try to “capture” currencies, “it is essentially about replacing with foreign exchange.”
He also highlighted as misrepresents the insistence on “capturing” dollars, when the crucial is “generating them”, and said: “Dollarize to ‘capture’ remittances It does not resolve a basic component of the structural crisis: a failed model of international specialization ”.
In his explanation he insisted that for greater availability of foreign exchange there must be higher income (exports and remittances) and have lower expenses (import substitution and modification of investment and consumption patterns). “The essential thing is to modify international productive insertion.”
