From our Bureau of Devastating News with some assistance from our Bureau of Socialist Torture Methods
What? Say that again, please. No coffee for two months?
Coffee has been scarce in Cuba ever since Castro, Inc. took control of everything. And for quite some time now, the coffee sold in Cuban stores has been diluted, mixed with garbanzo beans and other substances. Watch this video to see what this pseudo-coffee looked like.
But the total disappearance of Castro, Inc.’s pseudo-coffee from store shelves signals a new level of economic and agricultural dysfunction in Cuba. Add this to the ever-growing list of deprivations Cubans must endure.
Abridged and loosely translated from Periódico Cubano
Directors of the agriculture system and the Ministry of the Food Industry recognized in the Agri-Food Commission of the X Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) that there is no guaranteed availability of coffee from store shelves for the next two months, since the local production of the aromatic grain is totally deteriorated and there is no money to import it from abroad.
“Coffee production, from now on, will depend on whether we can import it, because national production will not be able to cover these months,” said Juan Carlos Domínguez Márquez, president of the Agrifood OSDE. The official himself said that the delivery of the coffee corresponding to the month of May in all consumer centers in the country is just being completed.
The Minister of the Food Industry, Manuel Santiago Sobrino Martínez, admitted that the problems with the distribution of food in the basic basket have a high incidence in the deterioration of the quality of life of the population. However, he blamed the shortage on the “aggravated US blockade on Cuba and the increase in food prices in the international market due to the war in Europe.”
The US embargo on Cuba does not include food and medicine, as the US embassy in Havana recently demonstrated. Proof of this is that almost 100% of the chicken meat that Cuba buys abroad comes from the “empire.” The other factor mentioned by Sobrino Martínez is the product of the Russian invasion of Ukraine ordered by Vladimir Putin, a staunch ally of the Cuban regime.
With reference to the production of bread, it was explained that the situation with the importation of wheat flour is still tense. Therefore, the call is to continue with alternative raw materials such as cassava starch, sweet potato, etc., “although this practice has not been stabilized in all provinces.”
Whole story HERE in Spanish
Oh, but coffee is plentiful and still fairly cheap where the “diaspora” lives, especially in Miami, so they can compensate for this situation. See how easy it is to solve production problems?