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Aunque ha existido cierta estabilidad en esa oferta racionada, la calidad del producto ha disminuido considerablemente y eso se debe a las carencias de materias primas para elaborar el pan y a los incontables casos de malversación, que han sido sistemáticamente denunciados por la población sin que se logre cambiar la situación para beneficio del consumidor... The abundance of scarcity For: German Quintero January 04, 2022 precariousness for the Cuban population. For December 31 of last year, the government distributed rum and cigarettes to the entire population, assuming that rum and cigarettes would alleviate the situation of discontent. The government did not take into account that an important part of the population, not only children and pregnant mothers, does not consume rum or cigarettes, either because they are not part of their consumption habits, or simply because the products are of poor quality. . These state courtesies, obtained in the warehouse through the Booklet, were resold at more than five times the value established by the regime. Last week, independent media denounced the fines imposed on citizens who wanted to resell products that they did not consume in order to complement a fragile basic basket, lacking eggs and milk, but full of cigarettes and poor quality rum. The year 2021 will be remembered as one of the most difficult for Cuban citizens in terms of consumption, after the Special Period. Tourism income and remittances were strongly affected by the tightening of some of the embargo measures, of the health measures to mitigate the pandemic and, above all, by the spectacular failure of the regime's administrative management, which since the implementation of the Ordering Task at the beginning of that year, where in addition to not promoting domestic production, unifying the Cuban peso with the CUC, promoting the MLC and ignoring the situation of the international market, it was unable to meet the import quota and implemented sufficient measures to maintain or increase internal production. Cuba's economic crisis and the scarcity of goods is largely due to this implementation, which also had the misfortune of coinciding with the rise in international prices of consumer goods and a spiral of prices that shot up and moved away out of reach many foods that were obtained in foreign currency. For the sample, a button: the levels of fishing -affirmed government officials- would not return to those of three decades ago . The fishing laws of 1996 and the most recent of 2020 still do not have the necessary tools to be able to bring fish to the tables of Cubans. How is it possible that on an island, which has not only the sea but also important river sources, it is not easy to procure fish? How is it explained that there is an overexploitation of fishing resources on the island, but there is a shortage of this food? According to official sources, the annual per capita consumption of fish was 16 kg; today it barely reaches 3.8 kg. In short, following official data, each person in Cuba eats about 300 grams of fish per month. This year's forecast is no better than 2021: Going into 2022, essential foods continue to be in short supply and the prices of inputs such as beef, pork, rice, milk, butter and beans are rising. The concern among the population is widespread: some people seek solutions through the rituals of "feeding the land" of the Santeros, while others prepare social mobilizations that echo the cries of "we are hungry" and "freedom" of the 11J demonstrations. Added to this is the massive migration of many of the political dissidents who have been forced to leave the country due to the pressures to which the political regime has subjected them. The panorama of economic crisis in Cuba and the consequent food crisis will be one of the greatest challenges to be faced for this year. The 13% drop in the Gross Domestic Product during 2020 and 2021, as well as the reduction in tourism issues, will be important burdens that will make a dent in the food supply. For now, ordinary Cubans will continue to have to trade rum and cigarettes for basic necessities. AND AND he year 2021 has ended with a situation of extreme 1/1 The article only came to make "official" a reality that  was already evident at the popular level, months ago self-employed workers have had difficulty accessing the purchase of wheat flour, for what bread and other derivatives  have become luxury products.  One of the main issues aired in street debates is the difficulty of mothers to provide their children  at least two loaves a day, one at breakfast  and another at snack time, an equation that is complicated for those who have more than one child at school age.  These  families, who usually supplemented the scarce supply of standardized bread, with what they could purchase through the network of state or private bakeries, have been limited  by the price increase. Today a bag of eight or ten loaves oscillates  between 180 and 350 cups without the supply remaining stable. Although the price in state bakeries is lower, the stability of the product is subject to scheduled power cuts and the supply of flour. In addition, the lines to buy this product   can reach up to five hours, an unthinkable time for people who have to comply with work hours. Teresa is an 80-year-old retiree, lives alone and ensures that her diet basically consists of bread and milk, two products that are currently difficult to access. Until recently, he bought bread at the bakery near his home, but  according to him, the queues have become  unbearable and some end up with the intervention of the police due to to violent fights. On some occasions, he waited for the resellers and bought the same bread for a slightly higher price, still affordable to his checkbook, however, with the shortages of the last few days and the inspectors' stalking, the price has skyrocketed and now he barely survives with the bread from the cellar. 1/1 One loaf a day was the minimum food that low-income people on the island could aspire to. It was also the rationality to which each member of the family nucleus “had the right”, which is popularly “played by the winery”. Since the monetary rearrangement policy, regulated bread ceased to be a product subsidized by the State and its price increased ten times, without this implying an improvement in quality. This condition has placed a wide range of population in greater vulnerability, increasingly deprived of economic resources. According to figures  revealed in the 2021 Statistical Yearbook, published  by the National Statistics Office  the number of beneficiaries and information (ONEI) of social assistance shot up in 2021 by 111% [two] , which means that more Cubans have joined the list of extreme poverty and completely depend on the State to survive.  This can be verified  when walking the streets of Havana , where the number of people begging in the doorways or "diving" in the garbage tanks in search of food and other necessary supplies is increasing. Read all of German Quintero's columns on the Food Monitor Program HERE

Nota de PRENSA Nota de prensa N° 3- Food Monitor Program Nota de prensa: La FAO y Cuba se reúnen para celebrar sus avances en materia seguridad alimentaria 04 de abril de 2023 Versión en español English Version La Habana, Cuba: El pasado 27 de marzo, el presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, publicó en su cuenta oficial de Twitter un tuit que destaca la colaboración entre la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el gobierno cubano. Díaz-Canel resalta la importancia de la cooperación y agradece a la organización por su apoyo en el fortalecimiento de la seguridad alimentaria en la nación caribeña. Desde hace años, la FAO ha estado trabajando en conjunto con el gobierno cubano en diversas iniciativas que buscan mejorar la producción agrícola, la sostenibilidad y la resiliencia al cambio climático en el país. Estos esfuerzos incluyen el apoyo a la agricultura familiar, la promoción de prácticas agrícolas sostenibles y la implementación de tecnologías innovadoras en el sector agroalimentario. Sin embargo, en la realidad, el trabajo de la FAO en la isla se traduce en entregar asistencia técnica y financiera para la elaboración de políticas y estrategias con el objetivo de garantizar la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de la población. Esta ayuda se convierte en el fortalecimiento de cuadros locales para la implementación de planes de producción agrícola a pequeña escala. En otras palabras, la FAO funge como un organismo internacional que legitima la situación de inseguridad alimentaria en Cuba. La implementación de cooperación en materia de seguridad alimentaria se soporta sobre la base de los informes oficiales que reciben del régimen cubano, es decir, de una imagen deliberadamente distorsionada de la realidad. Sobre estos informes, la FAO construye sus recomendaciones y programas para aliviar la crisis de inseguridad alimentaria que debería estar solucionándose dado que, según la información de la FAO en Cuba esta situación ha mejorado en los últimos años. Aunque la potencialidad de la producción de alimentos en Cuba es alta, las decisiones de producción, abastecimiento y asequibilidad en los mercados dependen, en una economía cerrada, del gobierno. Las ineficiencias en la no importación de materias primas, el retraso en los pagos a productores, la no recepción de cosechas, la falta de combustible para el acopio, el tope no concensuado de los precios, y los problemas en la transportación de la mercancía a los mercados han sido algunas de las ineficiencias mayores por parte de la administración cubana. Aún así, y con el hecho constatable de que la isla importa entre el 70 y el 80% de sus alimentos con aranceles de hasta 120% sobre su costo, la FAO continúa celebrando supuestos avances en materia de alimentación. Lejos de ser ese vergel de abundancia, prometido por Fidel Castro en la década de los sesenta, Cuba sufre una de sus peores crisis alimentarias, hídricas y energéticas en la coyuntura actual. La población depende del abastecimiento de bienes mediante el uso de un mercado ilícito en el que participa de manera indirecta el propio Estado cubano. La implementación de la Ley de Soberanía Alimentaria y Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SSAN) dista de ser una solución real de los problemas, en primer lugar, porque su diseño está sustentado en una información de consumo de alimentos que se aleja de la realidad y, en segundo lugar, porque no cuenta con la viabilidad fiscal necesaria para llevarse a cabo, además de la narrativa idealista que acompaña la ley, se describen pocos instrumentos reales para empoderar al consumidos, al tiempo que deja recaer gran parte de la responsabilidad del Estado de proveer, sobre sus propios ciudadanos. Food Monitor Program denuncia el uso de este tipo de eventos como plataformas para legitimar las acciones estatales en escenarios internacionales, a manera de instrumentos de control de la situación de inseguridad alimentaria en el país. Food Monitor hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional a enviar veedores e investigadores independientes que puedan contrastar la información oficial presentada ante la FAO y evaluar la real situación alimentaria en la isla.

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Aquí encontrarás algunos especiales sobre inseguridad alimentaria sobre temas como igualdad de genero, alimentación en zonas semirurales, inseguridad energética, entre otros. ESPECIALES Sobre Inseguridad Alimentaria en Cuba ESPECIAL -Alimentación en Crisis Cuba encarna el impacto prolongado de varias crisis : desde los años 90, el país ha descendido más de treinta puestos en el Índice de Desarrollo Humano. Tres generaciones de cubanos cargan la memoria del Periodo Especial mientras enfrentan actualmente una severa policrisis que impacta todos los aspectos básicos de la vida cotidiana. Ver más ESPECIAL- Seguridad Alimentaria e Igualdad de Género Actualmente, el 31,9 % de la población femenina mundial tiene una inseguridad alimentaria moderada o severa , frente al 27,6 % de los hombres. La violación del derecho a la alimentación en las mujeres también se ve reflejada en un ciclo multigeneracional de pobreza y potencial desaprovechado para este grupo poblacional... Ver más ESPECIAL -Alimentación en zonas SEMIRURALES Más del 24% de la población de Cuba se ubica en zonas periurbanas y rurales. Existen cerca de 6417 asentamientos albergando hasta 2,3 millones de personas en estos espacios. En la crisis multifactorial que atraviesa actualmente el país, la precarización de los servicios básicos y de la distribución de alimentos normados aumenta en las zonas más alejadas... Ver más ESPECIAL - MYPIMES De tal modo, el gobierno cubano ha desplazado su responsabilidad de garantizar la canasta básica alimentaria a la población y la ha situado en las Mipymes. Así, alimentos básicos como la leche, el arroz, el pollo y el aceite, por ejemplo, han ido perdiendo el subsidio estatal para terminar enfrentando precios que incluso sobrepasan el monto del salario y la jubilación mínima. Ver más ESPECIAL -Bancarización y escasez de efectivo El Gobierno cubano aprobó un programa de bancarización que exigía transacciones digitales para cobros y pagos en la población. En paralelo, se dificulta cada vez más la extracción de efectivo en los cajeros automáticos, por lo que los cubanos tienen más problemas para recibir sus cobros o jubilaciones, sus ahorros y capital bancario también está restringido. Ver más ESPECIAL - Seguridad HÍDRICA Desde hace varias décadas, el abasto de agua potable en Cuba viene resultando un grave problema. Diversos estudios sitúan la media nacional per cápita en 1 220 metros cúbicos al año, lo que de por sí representa un bajo volumen por habitante, teniendo en cuenta que solo la producción de los alimentos necesarios para satisfacer las 2 500 kcal que requiere una persona a diario consume 3 000 litros. Ver más ESPECIAL - Alimentación ESCOLAR en Cuba La alimentación escolar es el alimento nutritivo que los estudiantes reciben en los centros educativos durante el periodo lectivo. En Cuba, la escasez de proteínas en las raciones de almuerzo escolar se ha agravado al punto de que los alumnos solo reciben arroz o pan Ver más ESPECIAL - Inseguridad ENERGÉTICA Cocinar es una actividad central en Cuba, que necesita en muchas localidades el 90% de energía eléctrica. Pero la actual crisis energética nacional ha afectado la forma en que se conservan, elaboran y consumen los alimentos, y con ello, el bienestar en el hogar. Food Monitor Program realizó un estudio preliminar sobre el tema Ver más ESPECIAL - Elecciones en CUBA El 27 de noviembre del 2022 se realizaron en Cuba elecciones para las asambleas municipales del Poder Popular. Cuba está inmersa actualmente en una crisis multisectorial profunda , donde sobresale la inseguridad energética y alimentaria, además de un éxodo masivo. Ver más

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In my case, I am always prepared to stand in line, because there is what there is, but it is not enough for everyone. I'm always prepared to stand in line Francisco Verano, fifty-four years old, lives with his wife and nephew in Havana, is a self-employed worker (without a license), part of his family resides in Miami. Approximately how much do you spend in a month to guarantee your family's diet? How much of your income does it represent? They would represent 90% of my income, which is not stable, perhaps 15,000 pesos, which is far from guaranteeing the diet, because I also share it with my father, who does not live at home, so I would say 90%. How do you access food and in what percentage? (grocery markets, organic farms and fairs, black market, shipment of combos from abroad, purchase in MLC stores, labor incentives, others) Sometimes I receive combos by sending, they are varied and resolve, although of questionable quality. Very expensive, yes, they do not go below 160 dollars and they are not enough for the month. I constantly visit the state and private agro-markets, those are expensive, but they solve a lot. I visit private individuals more than the state ones, the latter are quite short of supplies, all with prices above the minimum wage, which is about 2,000 Cuban pesos a month. The black market before COVID-19 was the main way to acquire everything, now it is avoided to the point of hunger and need because it is extremely expensive. It has become the last option for many, I search the black market every month for 20%. I visit the stores in MLC a couple of times a month with anguish, they are very expensive and they are out of stock of the essentials. Still, you find them crowded, it's misleading because the basics are scarce, but you find Chinese sauce, mashed tomato, mayonnaise, snack paste. They make you believe that you have a choice, but you don't. In the end you sacrifice yourself to minimize yourself with what there is and not with and not with what you want, that's where half of my expenses go because you buy minced beef, some cans of pressed meat, all of that with prices that are extremely expensive, I say they are punishing prices. Finally, I do not receive work incentives because I am, as I told you, a self-employed worker. The black market before COVID-19 was the main way to acquire everything, now it is avoided to the point of hunger and need because it is extremely expensive Due to the shortage during COVID, there are some stores that were formerly establishments in CUC, which today have become in national currency (MN), there the State assigns you some essential products that could be used if they were not restricted, I'm talking about chicken, sausages and normado mincemeat. They give it in a very controlled way using the supply book and in insufficient quantities. Now you can visit those stores to purchase them once a month. They started weekly, they continued fortnightly and now it is once a month, the sacrifice to access the products due to the queues is sub-real, but with the purchases in those stores the majority subsists, in my case it is 15% of my expenses . How many hours do you spend searching for and buying these foods? The search and purchase of food is the main task of any Cuban, from those who have the least to those who have the most. In my case, I am always prepared to stand in line, because there is what there is, but it is not enough for everyone. Almost every day I do something related to the search for food, I am not always successful, when I go to the stores in national currency it is almost all day, just like those in freely convertible currency (MLC). In the agro-markets you invest less time, but you still spend a couple of hours in them. Do you use social networks to find out about supplies and prices in your area, for example, via Facebook or Telegram or WhatsApp groups? No, I do not use networks for this purpose. If you had to divide your diet, how would you describe your intake of animal protein, vegetable protein, carbohydrates? For example, how many times a week do you eat fish, red meat, white meat, dairy products, eggs, vegetables? Almost always chicken from regulated stores, you stretch it and it's like a rubber band, you eat it almost every day. I eat so little fish that I can almost say never. Red meat almost the same, last month I bought two tubes of ground beef, very good quality, in MLC, very expensive, two meals for three people per tube. That is the beef I have eaten in the last two or three months. I have access to eggs because 10 per person come to the cellar monthly. About milk, milk is not sold here, only medical diets, which have already been removed until further notice, and pregnant women and children under seven years of age have a milk allowance. I drink milk when I can buy it outside and it is very, very expensive. The vegetables, you find them in the particular agritos [small private agro-market stalls] and they are priceless. Onion, garlic and tomato are only available to big pockets. Perhaps what I buy the most is cucumber, avocado… there are no other types of vegetables. Do you consider that your family has enough intake of healthy food for its normal development? No, not at all, we are eating what we can, when we can, carbohydrates and sugar are what keep us going. Do you consider that in your family there are diseases related to the lack of nutrients or an unhealthy diet? We are a very strong race, even bread with rubble nourishes us, so if we are sick with a shortage of nutrients, which is almost total, we don't even notice it. Do you consider that, when shopping, you must decide between one basic food or another? Do you think you are buying food at a fair price? The problem is not that you decide between one and the other, the problem is that you buy the one that exists. I have never been in that dilemma because there is no variety. It depends on what is meant by justice, I would say that food is far above purchasing power, that could be said to be unfair Have your food preferences changed in the last two years? How? I love to eat, it's the greatest of pleasures from my point of view, a pork escalope, a kidney, roast pork and chicken in sauce with potatoes, tuna, a good steak, mixed salads, that I must not have forgotten to make… the ice cream, the malt soda, the sweets. But I am a man who has adapted since I was a child, I remember when I was on scholarship that I made a drink with water and some candies inside the container. Now I am not telling you not to drink an imported beer, a Kermato [non-alcoholic drink based on tomato juice, clams and spices], a carbonated soft drink, not to eat a delicious barbecue one day, but it is sacrificed [he pronounces it high and lengthening the syllables]. I love sugar water, which sucks, but it helps to stave off hunger sometimes. Sometimes I eat chicken mince, which I don't like, sometimes I eat a little more bread, which isn't bad for sustaining, which I don't like, but I have no other choice. What commodities do you find only or most often through the black market? The black market has always played a fundamental role when it comes to domestic sustenance, supplying the private sector. It even supplies to the left of the state sector [refers to illegal businesses within the state sector, gray markets]. I think that the State is aware, it knows that the system is inefficient and only with the proper functioning of that black market is it possible to place what is needed in each place, say in a home, say in a store, say in a state establishment. The black market has always played a fundamental role when it comes to domestic sustenance, supplying the private sector. It even supplies up to the left of the state sector I think there is a great shortage in general. There are several factors that conspire: the pandemic, the embargo, and most importantly, the poor performance of the Cuban State, the bad state policies. I have had cafeterias, for example, and at all times they functioned thanks to that parallel and capitalist market, which is the underground market; if it were not for him, this order of things as we know them would not exist, this government is supported by several pillars and one of them is the black market. Now the black market is weakened, but the little beef, milk, yogurt or flour that is obtained is through this route; businesses including mine continue to be nourished from there. In the end, I do not consider that I fall into an immoral crime for supplying myself from the black market, because not everything legal is fair, nor is everything illegal immoral. Read all interviews on Food Monitor Program HERE

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WHOSE FAULT IS IT? For: claudia gonzalez December 21, 2021 00:00 / 04:21 AND AND n the first week of December, the Cuban minister of economy, Alejandro Gil Fernández, admitted having evidence that several state stores, marketers of food products and other necessities, they sold in dollars without authorization. At the meeting of the Council of Ministers, this practice was condemned, as well as the inflated circulation of currency on the black market, among other exchanges on the illegal market. Unlike the black market, the gray market calls what the Cuban government condemns as "diversion of goods", that is, the purchase and sale of merchandise outside the channels authorized by the supplier, these merchandise being legal. On the island, from small private businesses dedicated to gastronomy to the administration of cooperatives and other state entities are subject to this type of exchange. More than with “enrichment” and “corruption”, these practices seem to be related to “struggle”, subsistence and resistance against insufficient salaries and fiscal obstacles. When it comes to getting a job, a common question is, and what is resolved there? For many state workers, the assets and access of their companies are a way to supplement their insufficient wages. The social perception of this practice implies two things. First, with a gray market as scarce as Cuba's, access to food products often includes food of poor quality, poor quality, even past its expiration date. In the networks you can find these days homemade recipes for reuse of expired powdered milk that users have purchased in some establishments. Others wonder what the real ingredients are in a tomato sauce or a guava bar bought in state-run farmers' markets, and which are more like carrot soup or beet quince. Second, the discontent of the population is used by the official discourse to redirect social demands to the closest piece in the distribution chain, to the weakest link: the “reseller”, the “hoarder”, the “dealer”. As the crisis progresses, the official press exposes caricatures that ridicule or demonize agricultural producers and vendors, as the only culprits of the inflation in the prices of vegetables and meat. It would be necessary to consider what the pertinent chain of interpellation really is, is the shopkeeper who adds a profit margin more responsible than the one who limits the products for sale to a market in the currency in which wages are not paid, and to which few have access through remittances? Is the neighbor who "hoards" with the purchase of 5 bottles of cooking oil more responsible than the one who does not guarantee a September 5, January 17. 2020. proper importation and distribution, which then imposes up to 120% customs duty on the product? Is the corner vendor who raises the price of pork more responsible than the one who does not import supplies for the animal's fattening, and then sells his imported meat on online markets? Informal relations in Cuba, although not positive for its inhabitants, start from filling gaps created and perpetuated by the country's economic administration, which is not exempt from inequities in its governance system, corruption and patronage. An important step would be not to naturalize these inequalities, and not let them be instrumentalized in the weakest. Read all the columns of Claudia González in Food Monitor Program HERE

Las calles de La Habana son el reflejo de lo que ha sido la política revolucionaria por más de sesenta años... A paperless event to “celebrate” For: Serge Angel January 11, 2022 00:00 / 05:19 (Mincin) on December 18, it was announced that, as a result of the delays in the importation of the raw material for the preparation of the supply books for the year 2022, the available lines of the month of January and February of the notebooks of the year 2021. And although the announcement is for the population of the western and central provinces, it is eloquent in the face of what the year 2022 will be in terms of supply; something paradoxical if one takes into account that next March 12 marks the 60th anniversary of the enactment of Law 1015 of 1962, which gave rise to the creation of the "Supply Control Book" . It is difficult to speak of a celebration when in reality what is commemorated is not the supply of the population, but its control, that is, the exact moment in which, through a provision of the Council of Ministers, the National Board for the Distribution of of Food and this, making use of its powers, established the first food regulation measures for Cubans, sentencing what would be the following years of rationing. Under the euphemism of "year of planning" (year 1962) -and the fact is that the regime lives on euphemisms that are in no way compatible with reality- the National Board for the distribution of food announced at its first meeting on March 13 of 1962, what would be the rationed products and what would be the procedure for the acquisition of these through the passbook. What began as a measure to "improve the distribution of supplies" ended up becoming a state policy that through food controls the population in the most intimate. The regime got into each of the homes and abruptly came to control what each family could eat and the products with which they could clean themselves. In the blink of an eye, the board's provisions established measures for the entire country, for 26 cities and for Greater Havana (see image 1. Distribution of rationed items). It was not a minor justified decision in the shortage of those who could buy compared to those who were marginalized, it was a deliberate measure to register each person residing on the island through a person who would act as "head of the family" and who would register all the members of the family nucleus so that the paterfamilias "Revolutionary State" could "guarantee supply." In reality, there was no profit, what there was was a tremendous loss, not only had the freedom to buy been lost -of those who could and those who couldn't-, but also lost the freedom of not being controlled by an ideological apparatus such as the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR). Surveillance body that from that moment acquired teeth and increased its ability to watch the neighbors, both those committed to the Revolution, as well as those "confused" or counterrevolutionaries (see image 2. How to obtain the notebook). The lack of paper for the preparation of notebooks is nothing more than a metaphor for the control to which the people are subjected. Without many alternatives, families will have to write down in the months of January and February 2021 what they will consume at the beginning of the year, hoping that The Mincin keeps its word and on January 30 delivers the 2022 notebooks so that everything returns to the "abnormality" in which it has lived since 1962. AND AND n a note published by the Ministry of Domestic Trade Read all of Sergio Angel's columns on the Food Monitor Program HERE

Hay hambre en Cuba, ciertamente. Si no, que se lo pregunten a una madre de familia que tiene que comprar un MLC a más de 170 pesos cubanos para poder adquirir una gelatina... The abundance of scarcity For: German Quintero January 04, 2022 precariousness for the Cuban population. For December 31 of last year, the government distributed rum and cigarettes to the entire population, assuming that rum and cigarettes would alleviate the situation of discontent. The government did not take into account that an important part of the population, not only children and pregnant mothers, does not consume rum or cigarettes, either because they are not part of their consumption habits, or simply because the products are of poor quality. . These state courtesies, obtained in the warehouse through the Booklet, were resold at more than five times the value established by the regime. Last week, independent media denounced the fines imposed on citizens who wanted to resell products that they did not consume in order to complement a fragile basic basket, lacking eggs and milk, but full of cigarettes and poor quality rum. The year 2021 will be remembered as one of the most difficult for Cuban citizens in terms of consumption, after the Special Period. Tourism income and remittances were strongly affected by the tightening of some of the embargo measures, of the health measures to mitigate the pandemic and, above all, by the spectacular failure of the regime's administrative management, which since the implementation of the Ordering Task at the beginning of that year, where in addition to not promoting domestic production, unifying the Cuban peso with the CUC, promoting the MLC and ignoring the situation of the international market, it was unable to meet the import quota and implemented sufficient measures to maintain or increase internal production. Cuba's economic crisis and the scarcity of goods is largely due to this implementation, which also had the misfortune of coinciding with the rise in international prices of consumer goods and a spiral of prices that shot up and moved away out of reach many foods that were obtained in foreign currency. For the sample, a button: the levels of fishing -affirmed government officials- would not return to those of three decades ago . The fishing laws of 1996 and the most recent of 2020 still do not have the necessary tools to be able to bring fish to the tables of Cubans. How is it possible that on an island, which has not only the sea but also important river sources, it is not easy to procure fish? How is it explained that there is an overexploitation of fishing resources on the island, but there is a shortage of this food? According to official sources, the annual per capita consumption of fish was 16 kg; today it barely reaches 3.8 kg. In short, following official data, each person in Cuba eats about 300 grams of fish per month. This year's forecast is no better than 2021: Going into 2022, essential foods continue to be in short supply and the prices of inputs such as beef, pork, rice, milk, butter and beans are rising. The concern among the population is widespread: some people seek solutions through the rituals of "feeding the land" of the Santeros, while others prepare social mobilizations that echo the cries of "we are hungry" and "freedom" of the 11J demonstrations. Added to this is the massive migration of many of the political dissidents who have been forced to leave the country due to the pressures to which the political regime has subjected them. The panorama of economic crisis in Cuba and the consequent food crisis will be one of the greatest challenges to be faced for this year. The 13% drop in the Gross Domestic Product during 2020 and 2021, as well as the reduction in tourism issues, will be important burdens that will make a dent in the food supply. For now, ordinary Cubans will continue to have to trade rum and cigarettes for basic necessities. AND AND he year 2021 has ended with a situation of extreme Read all of German Quintero's columns on the Food Monitor Program HERE