Cuba’s telecom monopoly rewards workers with bananas

If you work really hard in communist Cuba, and you behave like a good and loyal revolutionary, you will get rewarded, with bananas. This is what the Cuban regime is giving out as bonuses to its employees at the State-run telecom company ETECSA. Once again we see the Castro dictatorship showing the world that communist Cuba truly is a banana republic.

Via ADN Cuba (my translation):

ETECSA monopoly ‘rewards’ its workers with sweet potatoes and bananas

Officials from Cuba’s telecom monopoly, a company known as ETECSA, shared on social media images of a “bonus” to their workers in the eastern province of Granma, where they rewarded them with some food items like sweet potatoes and bananas.

“Overflowing with joy at the gathering of the women from ETECSA_Cuba Granma with the participation of retired women who have made a mark in their telecommunications journey and willingly share their knowledge with the new generations,” reads a post from the company on Facebook.

The post shows several company employees enjoying a moment together in a room where there are some food products, such as bananas, sweet potatoes, a pumpkin, and a packet of rice.

After the image went viral this weekend, the authorities of ETECSA in that province removed the photos of the “rewards” from their Facebook profile, but the evidence remained.

Cuban activist Magdiel Castro commented on the X social network that this “recognition for two working women from ETECSA in Granma, bananas, sweet potatoes, a pumpkin, and a packet of rice, practically equals half of their salary.”

“Socialism is the most appalling way to degrade and humiliate the human being. Hunger, misery, and impoverishment,” “What a shame and humiliation,” and “That’s what we deserve for being slaves and cowards, I think they are giving too much, they should give nothing,” were other reactions on X.

Recently, Gustavo López Cruz, head of the Commercial Department in the Territorial Division of ETECSA in Sancti Spíritus, assured the official newspaper Escambray that power outages were affecting the quality of Internet service and fixed-line telephony on the island.

“The significant deficit in power generation capacity has a negative impact on all telecommunications services, affecting basic telephony, cellular coverage, connection speed, and Internet access,” acknowledged López Cruz.

According to the executive, “all the telecommunication system equipment operates on electricity, and when it is lacking, without sufficient backup sources, you get interruptions and disruptions.”