| 16/12/2020 – 14:02 (GMT-4)
The Cuban government continues to inaugurate its trends in Convertible Free Currency (MLC) throughout the country, in which only Cubans who receive dollars from abroad can buy, and who remain better stocked than establishments in other currencies. .
The chain of stores Caribe announces that it had opened the store Minimax Caribe Sandino, in Villa Clara, as part of the reorganization of the commercial red and with the aim of providing better service to customers and expanding the range of products.
The store is “specialized in the sale of market products, summer, babies and household chemicals in the mode of MLC,” they announced.
At first, the government of the Island opened 72 establishments in MLC with the aim of raising divisions in the face of the crisis the country is going through.
At that time the authorities digested that the country sell a certain amount of merchandise in MLC to have divisions and continue to expand this type of sales, but the truth is that in your trends in CUC there is still a large shortage.
For his part, the Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Ministry of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil Fernández, said that your sales in dollars are a temporary measure: “It is a transitional measure, which fits the current context and is necessary but not desirable, which is meeting a goal adjusted to the time the country is experiencing,” he said.
However, there is little controversy among Cubans over the opening of these stores, as very few can access them.
On social media many have been who they have demanded the closing of your sales in dollars: “Let’s demand that stores close in dollars and supply stores in Cuban currency, it’s our right, we don’t earn in dollars, how many say yes?”, A Cuban woman said on Facebook on one occasion.
It includes the strikers of the San Isidro Movement, among its demands, demand the closure of your trends in MLC in the country.
These stores have come to further emphasize the great inequality that exists in the country, where most will remain almost in poverty, and only those who can receive remittances are saved.
On one occasion, authorities removed the jams from the stained glass windows of a Guantánamo dollar store, after going viral with a complaint that many children saw and cried for not being able to buy them.
Cuban actress Madai Fadraga said before the opening of yours that it was a “disrespect” that the population is divided between those who are left with only CUC and those who have American dollars.
Fadraga, who is the mother of three children, said she felt “destroyed” and with a “broken heart” because she believes that this whole situation is a lack of respect and disregard for the people.
“Below me is a pile of people in a worse situation and it’s so I don’t complain, but it hurts to see other mothers with other children who can’t even buy a packet of cookies,” she said.
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