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Por ejemplo, se vende en vez de carne de res, una masa cárnica que nadie sabe qué elementos la constituyen, ni aparecen los componentes ni los nutrientes desglosados... "We never leave anything without taking it out, everything is taken out here, everything is taken out, everything is taken out, nothing is left in the cellar here" HERE IS EVERYTHING Marlene Azor on food insecurity in Cuba: "the crisis is prolonged by the political will of the single party in power" Who in your family usually does the shopping at the grocery store? Well, my husband does the shopping in my store, he's the one who goes every month to run errands. Do you buy other “controlled”, “regulated” or “regulated” products? for this system? Through this supply book system, we buy products from the warehouse and once a month in the local currency store, which used to be in CUC, now in national currency, we buy chicken, detergent and oil; that's the same for the notebook there once a month. What products from the supply book do you consume most frequently? Do you leave any without removing in the month? From the basic food basket, what we consume the most is rice and beans, and we never leave anything untaken, everything is taken out here, everything is taken out, everything is taken out, nothing is left in the cellar here. Nothing is going to be returned to the State here, in short, that does not return to the State, but hey, you and I know how things are, here nothing is left anywhere, everything for your house. How much of your formal income does the monthly purchase of the products in the notebook represent? Do you consider that your ability to acquire them has been affected since the monetary reform? This monthly purchase of products from the supply book represents 6% of our income. And, I do consider that my purchasing power has been affected since the monetary reform, before with less than 100 pesos we used to buy 3 people's errands here, now we need more than 400 pesos. How many days of the month would you say that the basic products of the notebook are enough for the family? We could say that these products last approximately 12 days, that is, they are enough for me for 12 days, an average more or less 12, 15. In my case, the rice lasts for me at the end of the month, because we do not consume that much rice, or be the children eat little rice. Here the one who eats the most is Jose and he doesn't have lunch here, since he works he has lunch at his job. But hey, the beans last a week, the coffee more or less 15 days, because I don't strain in the afternoon, I just do it in the morning, it lasts a little longer for me, there are those who last less. The chicken is 2 to 3 meals, if you distribute it in portions, here the chicken is divided into portions, and well, you distribute it and well, more or less you get 2 to 3 meals. The picadillo per child is enough for 1 meal, the oil for 10 to 12 days because that doesn't last any longer, and it lasts for me from 10 to 12 days, because I don't get cold that much, because Jose doesn't eat fried foods, because we take care of ourselves, because I try not to eat excess fat, anyway, but there are those who don't get it after 12 days, at least it gets to me, but there are those who don't. Does any member of your family receive a special diet? Read all interviews on Food Monitor Program HERE

From “material stimulus” to “food blackmail” For: claudia gonzalez January 18, 2022 00:00 / 04:13 D D ince the 1960s there has been discussion in Cuba about the relevance of labor stimulation. Initially, it was committed to the validity within Marxism, of accounting autonomy, self-financing and the system of material incentives. A staunch critic of this trend was Ernesto Guevara, who strongly discouraged the use of methods that he considered inherited from the past. Instead, Guevara promoted moral encouragement, the mere satisfaction of duty fulfilled before the construction of Socialism. The ethical value of the stimulus was circumscribed in the rigorous and trench atmosphere, which called for exemplary production, for the sake of "decisive effort". After the failure of the Ten Million Zafra, however, the Soviet system was adopted, which already used binding calculations between workers' remuneration and the quantity and quality of their work . First it was the delivery of Soviet-made household appliances (TVs, fans, irons), then Chinese (like bicycles in the 1990s). From the trade with the ALBA governments and, above all, from the export of medical, technical and sports services, the labor stimulus consisted of a percent of what the workplace earned in foreign currency. These incentives were not granted to all positions, but depended on the capacities of each ministry. In this way, they had more presence in those self-funded centers that generated profits (from the production or export of products and services), as well as in "strategic" centers linked to the upper echelons of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Government. In recent years, however, we have seen the gradual disappearance of material products, for others of food, consisting of chicken boxes, sausages, eggs or cooking oil, among other basic consumer products. Food is nowadays the most common stimuli to reward the work of the state worker, especially among medical, technical, sports personnel, etc. For example, Cuban athletes who received decorations at the Pan American qualifying event, held in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2021, were received in Cuba by representatives of the local government, with food combos that included cakes, cooking oil, sausages and vegetables. . If the stimuli are actions to promote the potential of the individual, food deliveries in Cuba have been the slow transition towards the impoverishment of this social mechanism, to the point of being almost a government survival device. The food has happened like this, to try to fit a salary system that does not fulfill the role that it responds to; Due to the real value of its content, it would be, perhaps, closer to the conception of the Guevarian moral stimulus. So, if the stimuli are intended to raise the worker's self-esteem, it is unfortunate that basic consumer products are proposed as such, and are even desired by their recipients. At a time of chronic shortages, the partial state delivery of food also creates an important social differentiation for citizens who are prevented from this access. The government is aware of the existing food insecurity, and part of this to control and condition militancy in key sectors "stimulating" with products that should be common, daily to all its citizens. one one https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2021/08/11/el-humiliating-premio-de-la-dictadura-cubana-a-una-joven-promesa-del-boxeo-tras- win-a-tournament-in-mexico/ Read all the columns of Claudia González in Food Monitor Program HERE

Nota de PRENSA Nota de prensa N° 1 - Food Monitor Program Debido a la falta de libretas de abastecimiento, el Ministerio de Comercio Interior anuncia medidas para la anotación de productos alimenticios en los meses de enero y febrero de 2023 03 de enero de 2023 English Version Versión en español El Ministerio de Comercio Interior (MINCIN), por medio del envío de un documento oficial, anunció el pasado 26 de diciembre de 2022 que debido al “atraso en la fabricación por la industria de Libretas de control de productos alimenticios” no será posible entregar las libretas de abastecimiento en ocho de las dieciséis provincias de Cuba. Las provincias totalmente afectadas serán Mayabeque, Villa Clara, Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila y Granma, mientras que habrá afectación parcial en las provincias de La Habana, Pinar del Río y Santiago de Cuba. El documento enviado a “Directores Estatales de Comercio y Directores de los Grupos Empresariales” de las provincias anteriormente mencionadas, informa que, debido al atraso en la producción de libretas, se establece un procedimiento “transitorio” de anotación de los productos de la canasta básica familiar normada. Se explica, además, que este atraso se debe a “las limitaciones financieras que provocaron atrasos en la importación de materia prima para la confección de las libretas” y que ello condujo a “atrasos significativos” en la producción y distribución de las libretas de abastecimiento para el año 2023. Como en el año pasado , las anotaciones del año 2023 se realizarán en las libretas de 2022. El uso de la libreta de 2022, según este procedimiento, será ajustado para anotar en otras páginas los productos del nuevo año. En la casilla derecha de la página 11 se realizará la anotación de los productos secos, cárnicos y leche de la canasta familiar normada, reflejando el nombre del producto en la columna ‘cantidad’ y en la columna ‘fecha’ la cantidad del producto que se recibe por el total de consumidores del núcleo. En la página 19 se anotará el pan marcando la cantidad y la fecha. Los combustibles se anotarán en la misma página 2, aclarando la fecha y la cantidad. Al igual que con los combustibles, las dietas médicas del 2023 se anotarán en la página correspondiente. Para el Gas Licuado del Petróleo (GLP), que es una de las fuentes de energía para la preparación de alimentos, será validada por medio de los vales de venta que se emiten en la fecha de adquisición. En el último apartado del procedimiento, el MINCIN indica que los distribuidores serán los encargados de hacer la actualización de las libretas antes del 30 de marzo de 2023. FMP llama la atención sobre la persistencia en las condiciones de desabastecimiento de “materias primas” que se han justificado como “problemas financieros” durante los años 2021 y 2022. En el primer caso, la justificación del desabastecimiento se debía a la falta de insumos, producida por la situación económica en pandemia; en el último por causa del “bloqueo”. Esta situación terminará por afectar, nuevamente, a los consumidores de los productos básicos de la canasta familia, quienes tras la Tarea Ordenamiento y la escasez profunda de alimentos se han visto cada vez más dependientes del documento de racionamiento. En esta ecuación, la mayoría de la población con menor capacidad adquisitiva, sin fuentes de ingreso por remesas ni acceso a moneda MLC se ubicará en condiciones de vulnerabilidad serias. FMP continúa advirtiendo sobre las graves consecuencias que tiene este tipo de situaciones a la hora de garantizar un debido derecho a la alimentación de la población en Cuba.

Ante la compleja situación alimentaria y sociopolítica que atraviesa el país, a nivel local se han implementado una serie de medidas de carácter especial, que comprenden la micro asignación de recursos como mecanismo de control y contención del descontento social... 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 1/2 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. 1/1 The repeated power cuts that occur throughout the country show other damage caused by this energy crisis. Some time ago, the quality of the food that arrives at state outlets, smaller than normal, acidic or simply  absent, has further diminished. Although the issue is not new, the fuel crisis also affects the transfer to the points of sale, an action that is often carried out without the minimum hygienic-sanitary conditions, so the bread is transferred and stored in dirty spaces, exposed to insects. and humidity.    Contrasted with all this is the existence of a functional market that gains more space in the lives of those with relatives abroad. In online mode and offering a wide range of products that are scarce in the rest of the freely convertible currency (MLC) stores or in the almost extinct stores in Cuban pesos (CUP), there are hypermarkets such asSupermarket23 eitherMallHavana , where they offer a way to acquire quality bread, in the variety that the customer wants and without quantity limitations. Accessing these products on a regular basis is unthinkable for ordinary Cubans, however some self-employed workers, owners of paladares, restaurants or rental houses report that on occasions they have been forced to access this market in search of bread. as the only alternative to scarcity and to avoid having to close their businesses permanently. 1/1 De forma general podemos afirmar que la falta de inocuidad alimentaria tiene una incidencia mayor en un segmento más indefenso de la población. Los alimentos contaminados han afectado mayormente a las personas vulnerables, más dependientes del sistema de racionamiento mientras que una mayoría entrevistada decide regalar o no “sacar de la libreta” productos como el picadillo de soya. [12] En una mayor fragilidad se encuentran las comunidades alejadas de centros urbanos, a los que estos productos ya llegan de forma limitada y con mayores complicaciones (de transportación, de almacenamiento, de refrigeración). Para estas personas, a la decepción de recibir productos en este estado en las actuales condiciones de desabastecimiento en Cuba, se suma la incertidumbre ante la no garantía de reposición o sustitución inmediata según los propios organismos implicados. En lo referente a personas privadas de libertad, en encuestas previas realizadas por Food Monitor Program, por ejemplo sobre la alimentación en instituciones carcelarias en la isla, a la pregunta de si habían experimentado eventos de intoxicación por mal estado de los alimentos un tercio de los entrevistados respondió afirmativamente aduciendo diarrea y “mal de estómago”. [13] En términos estructurales, es muy difícil supervisar en Cuba el cumplimiento de los indicadores de calidad. Esto requiere que se apliquen sistemas de gestión a lo largo de toda la cadena de producción, y luego desde el productor hasta el consumidor. Por ejemplo, en estudios para determinar la calidad e inocuidad de los alimentos de producción nacional se ha determinado que la producción de algunos alimentos perecederos cumple con los requisitos mínimos establecidos, pero su deterioro se debe a fallos principales como carencias logísticas e inadecuada infraestructura, que contribuyen a problemas higiénico sanitarios. [14] 1/1 El seguimiento de un indicador tan importante como la aceptabilidad en el mercado tampoco es verídico si se tiene en cuenta que dada la precarización alimentaria en la isla los alimentos que presentan falta de inocuidad son igualmente reutilizados en comida para las mascotas y los animales de corral. Por ejemplo, los granos picados se destinan a las aves de corral, muchas familias que no consumen picadillo de soya lo compran y lo reservan para sus mascotas, el yogurt de soya fermentado es un alimento apetecido por los cerdos de cría. En este último caso un residente en Santiago de Cuba explica: “Mi vecino, en cambio, fíjense qué maravilla, no deja de estar contento, ¿y por qué? porque si yo no me como el yogurt, el se lo echará a los puercos. Y se va por el camino, ligero, activo, casi que saltando de alegría, cubriendo la decepción de no tomar el yogurt, con la ventaja de poder alimentar a los puercos con un alimento de primera.” [15] En los casos en que el producto dañado no puede reutilizarse es importante recordar las consecuencias de la falla en los reglamentos de producción y distribución nacionales. Conduce mayormente a la pérdida y desperdicio de alimentos, otro elemento a subsanar en la consecución de la seguridad alimentaria. Saber qué es lo que comemos y poder elegir qué alimentos incorporamos a nuestro organismo es también un derecho. La seguridad de poder constatar en el etiquetado la salubridad de lo que recibimos no solamente evita malos hábitos de consumo, sino que incentiva a una mejor alimentación, evita el desaprovechamiento de alimentos en un momento precario de desabastecimiento nacional, repercute en la percepción de peligro de intoxicación y de contraer enfermedades intestinales, en general asegura la preservación de la salud y una mejor calidad de vida. [1] http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2022/10/26/el-pan-nuestro-ii-produccion-de-harina-en-molinos-cubanos-mercado-del-trigo-financiacion-y-factor- human/ [two] http://www.onei.gob.cu/node/18491 Read all of German Quintero's columns on the Food Monitor Program HERE