| 01/02/2021 – 12:35 pm (GMT-4)
the comedian Ulysses Toirac flooding their social media with irony this Saturday, following the lack of cigars in stores, what appears to be “a wonderful public health plan.”
The interpreter of the popular character of Chivichana said that his skin “stings” thinking “how many sacrifices the Cuban economy makes”.
“What a wonderful plan for public health! ‘Zero cigars for sale in the capital! We want a healthy population!'” Toirac wrote on his Facebook account, which has become a space for reflection and questioning about the reality that the Cubans of the island live.
“I get upset thinking about how many sacrifices the economy makes to deprive itself of this collection that includes the famous taxes on cigars and beverages (which exist in all countries and apply to these items in order to discourage consumption)! I’m going to cry with emotion! Oh, how happy pussy! “, Added the comedian.
His post has generated hundreds of comments. While some preferred to follow the line of humor and have fun with the publication, others joined the criticism, not only for the lack, but for the new prices that began this January 1 in Cuba and predict a 2021 full of shortcomings and sadness for Cubans.
“Right now you remember when they told you in Miami ‘stay, stay'”, “Perfect, I have faith in angry and anxious smokers … I think with this measure if communism is fucked”, “In Camagüey is not there either “,” And hope that February arrives, that inflation will not let you live off the count “,” Compay, it has hurt me to know that a box of condoms is at 40 CUP “, are some of comments on Toirac’s post.
Cigarette shortages in many Cuban stores are already a common problem, especially for smokers from brands like H Upmann, which is already hard enough to find in some places in Havana.
In this regard, a Facebook user questioned a report broadcast by Cuban television this Saturday morning, in which images were shown with piles of boxes of H. Upmann cigar and beef.
“I imagine the ICRT has used its archive as a visual aid, because the absence of this brand, and others, is well known among smokers.”
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