According to the communist Castro dictatorship itself, 90% of the honey produced on the island is being exported to generate income for the totalitarian regime. This is happening while the Cuban people are suffering through a crisis of food shortages never before seen or experienced by the island.
According to state-run newspaper Granma, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, 90% of Cuban honey production is destined for export.
Amid a dire food crisis, the Cuban regime boasts that honey is among the eight items in the Comprehensive Export Strategy of Goods and Services for the period 2019-2030, according to the observatory on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment.
Beekeepers in Granma, the second largest honey-producing region after Matanzas, set a historical record for a single month this year, with 220 tons in March, 36 tons more than what was collected in the same period of 2018. Similarly, by mid-year, they had surpassed 500 tons and expect to reach 1,100 tons before the end of 2024.
Not far behind are producers from Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba, and Camagüey, who hope to meet the forecast for the second production peak of the year, from October to December, despite the shortage of supplies and fuel affecting other sectors.
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Honey exports ensure the inflow of foreign currency to the regime, as just last year, the production price of one metric ton of natural honey was valued at over $12,000 in some countries.
Since the socialist revolution of 1959, the communist Castro dictatorship has been stealing Cuba’s rich resources, including its people, and selling it to the highest bidder to fund its reign. This is socialism in action.
The regime always goes for what will bring in real money, obviously from people outside Cuba. I mean, if average Cubans who live on an island can’t get seafood, why should they get honey?
So, they expect to produce 1,100 tons of honey by 2024? That’s an enormous amount of honey for a country like Cuba that’s a total mess. Somehow, I find that hard to believe and wonder if the regime isn’t selling fake honey, or adulterated honey mixed with water and sugar.