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“Cuba’s Price Setters Have Never Milked a Cow at 2 a.m.”

The Cuban State pays 15,000 pesos for an animal, processes it and sells it for 60,000 pesos, denounce the producers. (1 USD = 300 pesos)

Three years after the sector’s paralysis due to COVID-19, Cuba has not recovered the visitor numbers that exceeded 4 million in 2019.

“I know that today they’ll give us another story, but when you least expect it, they will take away the electricity again,” says Ernesto.

Dayron vigorously scrubs the inside of the tank and an orange liquid with a strong chemical smell comes out. The risk of buying a used tank.

A friend is visiting me and makes a comment while laughing. We’ve gotten used to laughing at everything, even when it’s not exactly funny.

This is a recurring topic these days because it seems that the Cuban government is playing cat and mouse with private business owners.

Gangs armed with knives and pipes wait for cars, and when they slow down, they pounce on them.

Instead of addressing the direct causes of the farm sector’s low productivity, the authorities continue to promote centralized structures.

In 2023, María Corina Machado stated at a press conference that the supply would only continue if the Cuban government paid for it.

Spanish companies maintain investments in Venezuela worth more than 500 million euros.