Bread, one of the few staple foods that still regularly reached the table in Cuba, is also beginning to disappear, now with new restrictions due to the flour crisis. More details to follow.
From today, The distribution of basic food basket bread is restricted only to children from 0 to 13 years old and to priority social centers., such as hospitals, schools, and the Family Care System. The reason: a shortage of wheat due to the lack of product arrival in the country.
La noticia It was confirmed by official media through a brief statement from the Guantanamo government that apologizes for the inconvenience, but for millions of Cubans who already suffer the food crisis, the announcement is much more than a nuisance: it is another blow to daily survival.
“Bread used to be the only thing you could count on arriving almost every day. Now, not even that,” said Luis, a father in Central Havana. “My daughter is 14, and she won't get her bread for a year. What do I do, skip breakfast?” he added.
“Look at my notebook, I'm 71 years old, I live alone. What do they want, for me to eat air? Because there's no rice, no milk, no meat. And now they're taking the bread!” another user from Santiago added in the comments.
"Those 13 and up are no longer children. My children won't go to school without breakfast. This is disrespectful, this is outrageous," another noted.
More restrictions on the purchase of basic food bread in Cuba
This supposedly temporary measure occurs in the midst of a prolonged economic crisis that has hit hard the basic basket in Cuba.
Citizens are almost entirely dependent on state rationing, which is delivering increasingly fewer, lower-quality products with longer distribution delays. Currently, in May, March's supplies are being delivered incomplete.
Some people wonder if this situation really has a solution.
“Everything they take away is 'temporary,' and then never comes back. What's next?” another user lamented.
Although the government assures that distribution will return to normal "when the flour supply is stable," no specific date or details were provided regarding the duration of this new restriction.
Cuba faces one of its worst food crises in decades, with shortage of basic products, uncontrolled inflation and an increasingly impoverished population.
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Es inaudito como siguen exprimiendo al pueblo. Como dijo uno de los entrevistados, Que quieren que la gente viva del aire? No me extrañaría que hagan una mesa redonda sobre como respirar adecuadamente para obtener la mayor cantidad de vitaminas y proteinas de este. HASTA CUANDO CUBA?
Gracias por el trabajo que hacen. Es muy necesario porque la información objetiva ha sido lo primero que estuvo en falta en Cuba desde 1959.
That news is old, they had denied it adding that it was fake news and there you have it.
They owe the people 3 pounds of rice for the month of March, April as a whole and May, we're going on 13 days and the warehouses are overflowing with rice, peas and black beans, all in reserve, filling up with pests and the children and the old people with an environment and a salary and a checkbook that instead of being used to buy clandestine food, lovquevda is a pity and there is not a single boss who cares.cupHey worriedcupand for this reason.
This is not fake news, it proves the elements of what I write on this page.
What a sad reality, they just gave a solution to so many problems that only affect the people: low salaries, pensions that don't even cover a liter of oil, prices keep rising, and we know that everything bad here is here to stay.
Please carefully consider until what age you will be handing out bread. Because school age doesn't end at 13, so high school students don't eat breakfast? Pay close attention to this aspect. Most of our people can't afford expensive bread.
Lo unico que tienen que valorar es en donde se van a meter cuando todo eso se derrumbe. Porque, como un aguacate que se cae solito de la mata y se hace trizas en el suelo, así se va a derrumbar la aberración que ha ahogado al noble pueblo cubano por tantos años.
I agree with this measure and with all others that may come, regarding food restrictions and limitations, as well as the rising prices and shortages of basic goods. The working people understand and support these types of measures. Anyone who doesn't believe this should look up images of the May Day parades throughout Cuba. Only a minority thinks differently; the majority is in favor.
Everything they take away we deserve
I think the government needs to rectify this measure, or it will be a real and final collapse for Cubans. The final collapse is because the state is practically selling nothing for the basic food basket. In Santiago de Cuba, they owe two months' worth of rice, not enough for children or the elderly.
One thing must be clear: As long as salaries and pensions do not correspond to market values, the state is obligated to continue subsidizing them; it is an obligation of every state, because it does not pay. They cannot say that we should forget about the basic food basket; that must be guaranteed. Instead, they must pay enough to be able to consume in the private market.
We must understand that Cuba is a blockaded country and remember that during the Great Patriotic War, people lived with much less and resisted.
If you agree with this measure, it is because you have your problem solved in one way or another, and because you do not have children or elderly people to support at home.
Historically, the culprits of chaos are not those who represent us but those REPRESENTED!!!! . (Who are the ones who appoint those they represent?????)
Sheep, I mean, Cubans, do not complain anymore, keep shouting like when you shouted slogans on May 1st, be more revolutionary, now they are giving you the award you deserve, I only hope it gets worse and they take away more, I said it coconut face (fcr) "we have no other alternative but to resist (endure), our slogan is, HOMELAND OR DEATH."
It is very sad to reach the age of 61 and have lived a whole life waiting for retirement and the reality is that there is no bread, not even a loaf of regular bread, not all Cuban citizens can buy bread every day for 90, 100 and even 500 pesos (bags with 8 loaves of bread), truly very sad, shameful and miserable for a father or mother of a family not to be able to bring even a loaf of bread to the table for their children to have breakfast.unen, with so much shortage of all kinds of necessary products, what else are they going to deny us?
It is very sad to reach the age of 61 and have lived a whole life waiting for retirement and the reality is that there is no bread, not even a loaf of regular bread, not all Cuban citizens can buy bread every day for 90, 100 and even 500 pesos (bags with 8 loaves of bread), truly very sad, shameful and miserable for a father or mother of a family not to be able to bring even a loaf of bread to the table for their children to have breakfast.unen, with so much shortage of all kinds of necessary products, what else are they going to deny us?
I am going to be president of this country, what we have to do is take up arms and overthrow the government. Enough of this shamelessness, people, realize the corruption that exists in this country.
All state bakeries should be eliminated, so they can avoid giving out information that only further upsets a population that can't stand it anymore.
Terrible, the world is out of control, just as the Bible says. Horrors will be seen.
What a shame for the Cuban people, who have endured all kinds of restrictions for over 60 years, but have maintained their fighting spirit with dignity in the face of all kinds of shortages.
We are now in the midst of a revolutionary crisis. The cycle is repeating itself, but it's no longer the same people who think differently. There's a lot of backlash due to the lack of even the most essential necessities of life. We don't really know how the situation in Cuba will turn out from a political, social, and economic perspective. Time will tell.
I won't repeat my comment, but this is getting worse and worse, and they still can't admit that we can't take it anymore.
They should finally recognize that this government can no longer fulfill all the promises it has made over the past 66 years. The people can't stand any more of them, but the government is like a pig in a mudhole and has no way out.
Enough with the lies and promises. Leave the government to someone who can lead us with dignity and decorum toward a better future. Cubans need it.
HOW SAD IT IS TO READ THIS INFORMATION.
But. this happens because we live depending on wheat that is bought in other countries, and having so many plains, idle lands full of MARABÚ and NO ONE cares, if our STATE dedicated time to think and look for solutions this great problem for the population would be solved: ONLY by breaking up all those Mountains full of MARABÚ, from Guantánamo to Pinar del Rio, and sowing it with: CORN to cite an example WOULD HAVE enough to sell bread to the population and sell flour for the blessed basic basket, thus part of the GREAT FOOD CRISIS that Cuba is experiencing would be resolved. Please apply alternatives like this and there will be results.
Hello, until when is the bread very small, the grams, and the elderly who eat, please, everyone does not have to buy, 😭
In Cuba 🇨🇺 the crisis is all aspects, for some Cubans, for the leaders NO, they are liars, GOD bless them, be careful with crises.
How many more measures are we going to pass? If everyone in Cuba knows how resources are moved in SMEs, especially bread, then the state does not have the means to sustain Cuban society.
I knew that when the food started this would happen, I told my son, first of all, how are you going to raise salaries without production? That explains it very clearly: fidelity. During the special period of the 90s, companies closed, everyone went to the countryside, and now everything that was built has been rotated. If he resurrects like Christ, he will shoot them all, like eight of them, until forever, commander.
One more thing that reflects the poor management of a planned economy. Until when can popular power do for its people, everything goes away, never to be seen again.
The Cuban worker cannot have a decent breakfast because they have taken away our daily bread, as the Bible says, but the Cuban worker cannot give 120 or 150 pesos to the resellers every day because the salary is not enough to even eat. Imagine giving 120 or 150 pesos every day that you eat the next day, and the elderly who have a low salary.
The worst are the elderly who fought so hard for this country...it's shameful
Now the lid has finally been put on the bottle, 🙏"by the sweat of your brow you will earn your daily bread" if bread is a sacred food? What will the eyelashes eat then? 🤔and he asked me, "Why the five-year plans, why the inter-institutional contracts and agreements?"
I understand that our leaders are making their best effort, but they are trapped in a vicious circle from which they cannot escape, because they came to power that way and remain there even though few things work.
The flour shortage is for the distribution of basic goods, but there's no shortage of flour for selling it freely and at a high price. Who understands this? It's disrespectful and a mockery of the people.
The measure has already begun to be implemented in Guantánamo; the basic bread basket is for children from 13 to XNUMX years of age.
You don't give a damn about the miserable old people in this country. What will we eat, what will we have for breakfast? This is worse than an extermination camp. Gaza is too small for us; there's no war here.
The apology for the inconvenience or the increase in hunger for the elderly and less elderly who are going through it
I think this government has reached its end and the people will have the last word.
I propose changing the Lord's Prayer, where it says: …give us this day our daily bread…
I'd like to understand this measure, because at the bakery in the Debeche neighborhood of Guanabacoa, they only offer one loaf of bread for children. However, they sell free bread for 80 pesos, and that supposedly isn't enough, or is it that this bakery belongs to the non-state sector and they do what the owner says? This measure doesn't clarify this.
Seriously, there are Cubans who speak and even appreciate the basic food basket, which basic food basket should not even be called that, it is not even a ration in times of war,
It should disappear so that they no longer deceive the world by saying that they guarantee the basic basket to the people of Cuba.
There is hunger and that doesn't hurt them...
I believe this measure is not a solution, as most Cubans need this essential food for breakfast, especially for children, who also need it for their snacks, as we all know that schools don't even guarantee this. In my 63 years, I've never seen this option as a solution, and we've been through crises, but a solution was always sought that wouldn't affect the people, but that's already a concern.cupaction by the people went down in history
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If you agree with this measure, it is because you have your problem solved in one way or another, and because you do not have children or elderly people to support at home.
My God, until when will there be no bread, no rice, nothing? The people are suffering, gentlemen, the children, and the resellers, finishing off the two pesos that one has?
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TEMPORARY AND I AM CONVINCED THAT NO MORE BREAD STAYS THERE, THE GREAT SUSTAINABILITY OF THE CUBAN IS INCREDIBLE!!!!
I believe that the country has been accumulating various problems that the population can no longer withstand and without any apparent solution. Please let us concentrate the analysis on children and the elderly because we are becoming more impoverished every day.
Better yet, they should distribute the boxes and bury us.
Everything they implement is here to stay.
There is no wood to make coffins... PAMEX... which is in charge of that... has no wood... and they are putting cardboard boxes... of whatever they can find... less wood
This has already happened and every day there will be more food shortages, first milk for diets and children from 7 to 9 years old and now bread, which I understand is the only country that has rationed it and cannot buy anything else because of the high prices of products.
Surely the leaders and governors of this island of Cuba in their walks, trips and in their daily lives, neither they nor their children and family lack bread, not the one from the store but that special bread with certain special ingredients that the people cannot access even if they have no bread. mlc that is no longer useful but that currency that they did not accept for a long time not even in banks and now they are dying for it, the USD can eat that bread that they eat, enough of so much abuse, so much lack of respect for their people, in the adventures of children they taught us that other dictatorships sent you to the dungeon with bread and water, they cannot do that and they do not even fulfill that commandment of love of God that says, give us today our daily bread, history has shown that when a king saw the war lost he handed over the castle and the kingdom but he did not sacrifice his people, his women, elderly and children because a being with 14 years is still a child to cite an example, enough of abuses and outrages, enough of lies, long live free Cuba, the dignified Cuba that our apostle dreamed of, not the one that these corrupt people are governing. Enough is enough, corrupt, incompetent and abusive people leave.
There's no trustworthy manager at the bottom. Those appointed to manage any establishment also "get their hands dirty." They learn the daily instructions and repeat them constantly. They're taken from one place and put in another. Any day of the week is good for overseeing a bakery. The problem is, they don't want to see why they're running out of "their" daily bread, in the form of flour, oil, and money.
It's fake news.
It's disrespectful, none of them are going to skip breakfast, they no longer care about the people, they only care about getting rich at the people's expense.
If you went to the parade on May 1st, it means there is conformity and revolutionary fervor, so now everyone shut up.
We must continue with resilience.
Likewise
Why give an opinion if this country is already beyond repair? Just try to survive however you can. I feel so sorry for the elderly with their meager pensions.
Between blackouts, a lack of food due to its high prices and other things that you can't even buy, a lack of liquefied gas, and now the PAN is added, which would be left to the ordinary Cuban.
Everything they say is a lie, please don't talk rubbish that there is bread even selling on the street.
Christ is waiting for us to come, keep supporting those with full bellies, I'm sure none of the leaders will stop eating bread hahaha, but hey, the people will agree.
Also the bread!!! May God have mercy on our people, or is it temporary... or will it remain with the blackouts... until when what misery 🙏🙏
In my town (Perico, Matanzas) the last day they gave bread was May 1st.
Everything is disastrous.
Also in Banes, Holguin province
My true opinion, and I don't think I'm an anti-communist fanatic, no. But the truth is that they have to negotiate with the Americans, who would be the only ones who can save us. Because neither Europe nor Russia have been able to do so in decades. Or Vallence, emigrate so that Cuba can prosper. There's no other choice. This country is going backwards by a million. They've completely destroyed it. Hand over this hot potato.
Every day we are returning to being aboriginals, first without electricity, then cooking with firewood or coal and now eating casabe. What this country has no name or if it does, it is called INVOLUTION 🤬😠😡
LONG LIVE MAY 1ST. EVERYONE SUPPORTING THE REVOLUTION. DON'T COMPLAIN OR LAMENT.
The bread at the Aurora bakery on 190 and 51st Street in La Lisa is a disaster; they steal the flour, oil, and even the yeast. The lines are huge, and the bread never weighs 60 grams and is of poor quality. They sell bread at irregular hours, and people have to go three or four times to see if they can buy it.
Ah! The new invention: if you run out of bread and don't report it the next day, they won't sell it to you.
Good but then they sell it for 15 cup in large numbers on the left.
The management of the company that handles this activity is corrupt.
Only when there's control. They wear masks, bandanas, and gloves, and that day the bread tastes a little better. What a country where impunity is the order of the day.
Please check it out and you'll see.
It is shameful that the state cannot solve the bread problem. PP Mrs., the population and the Mipimis can buy the flour to sell bread. Now that children are three years old in Ciego de Ávila, they do not receive milk. What priority are they talking about? A child who does not have the right to breakfast or a snack because their parents cannot afford the prices with the salaries they earn now. At 14 years old, they are men. They do not even have the right to bread from the aforementioned basket that no longer exists. What is the priority that is being talked about? A retiree whose checkbook is only enough to buy a bottle of oil and 5 pounds of rice. What help are they talking about? I hope that at least the one who should comment on it reads this comment. Thank you very much.
The only thing that is certain is that today we are BETTER THAN TOMORROW and we were certainly BETTER THAN TODAY yesterday.
It's not just bread anymore, it's everything in this country. There's a lack of everything, even the government, and not to mention salaries that haven't been paid for 70 years.
The only thing that is certain is that today we are BETTER THAN TOMORROW and we were certainly BETTER THAN TODAY yesterday.
The only thing that is certain is that today we are BETTER THAN TOMORROW and we were certainly BETTER THAN TODAY yesterday.
We were always less BAD than tomorrow and today, the word BETTER never
We are still better off than the Campechea of the Red Chamber when 3 million died of hunger, but we are getting closer.
May God protect us from God
Well, I earn 2500 pesos and I'm physically disabled, and I have an 82-year-old woman. So how do I manage? What do I give that poor innocent woman for breakfast? Blessed be my country. 🤦🏻♀️
This is inconceivable. A few people live here, not to mention who they are, they don't care about children or the elderly, in short, they don't care about anyone who is beneath them, gosh, how we have to endure in this country. And only because of those who have the Dalai Lama power.
This is a total lack of respect. What are we supposed to eat? My breakfast was bread with something (sometimes with tomato), what are we going to have for breakfast? This is beyond compare. To the top brass: JUST LET GO OF POWER!
the handle sucks
The measure that must be taken is that the leaders of this country stop traveling with family entourages and buy flour wherever it is sold in the world. Enough of this disrespect for the people, there is no flour and bread is sold on the streets of the Cotorro Municipality for 250-230 and in other municipalities for 300 and more. Until when should we be tolerant of the bakeries selling and the new owners selling the bread? Ah, then the master bakers will answer to one owner and the sale in the streets lacking hygiene will end.
Why spread fake news, what's the point of it?
To do harm, obviously
Our country is a marvel. Now, hold on, leaders, because a great curse comes from heaven, or karma, if you prefer... Look, taking away our daily bread. Tell me something, there are restrictions for you too. Well, I doubt it. You enjoy what this people suffer. Poor Martí, Fidel, Maceo, Céspedes, who thought one day and believed in continuity. We are tired of resisting. Poor those who depend on bread to start the day... because letters don't enter when you are hungry. I will continue praying for my leaders, as the scripture says, so that they can find a path for this people. In short, there will be no leader like the comandante who knew how to calm the people. We don't even suffer the consequences. Now so many people arrive exhausted at the emergency rooms in hospitals, and we, the emergency room staff, at the end of the day, only have part of the knot in our stomachs because we barely eat, the knot of discouragement. God bless you.
What are you waiting for to release the teat? If you've already left it as dry as chaff, if the people have already reached the limits of misery, release the cow and let other people try your formula to see if things improve.
LONG LIVE MAY 1ST. EVERYONE TO THE SQUARE. AND SAY DON'T SUFFER. WITH WHAT WE ENJOY.
We continue to fight poverty, hunger and basic needs for the Cuban family.
With my pension of $1600.00, I cannot afford to buy a loaf of bread for $115.00 or $150.00.
where you're going to end up.
Remember the Ignorance of Bayamo:
To the brave weapons run
that to die for one's country is to live...
For illiterate people, the word "igno" doesn't exist. It's an anthem. This hurts me more than the lack of bread.
What are you going to do with the children who live in one town and have their supply card from another, as is the case of my 8-year-old uncle who lives in San José de los Ramos in the municipality of Colon in the province of
Matanzas and his card is in the municipality of Marti in said province. His mother is not allowed to move him with her and his 3-year-old brother because the owner of the house is in the United States. An exemption cannot be made in these cases because his purchasing power does not allow him to buy bread at the price it is sold on the street. Please, someone has to do something for this single mother with two minor children. If at least what was done during Covid could be done,
And so they had the audacity to march on May 1st as if everything was fine. Now hold on.
Better to remove it completely, problem solved.
That bread will be in the province, because in Havana City, today, May 9, they gave it to everyone on the ration book.
The measure has already begun to be implemented in Guantánamo; the basic bread basket is for children from 13 to XNUMX years of age.
The notebook has not been removed, they remove the products, one day one, another day another and save yourself who can, with explanations and apologies you cannot live
Is this true??????……I have seen the news and there has been no talk of this action to be taken….this would be the last straw, this is the breakfast, the lunch of many, children, young people, housewives, the elderly, etc., their food is a small bread alone or with anything….let’s hope it is fake news as there are many on the networks….
We must do less with more; but where can we find the less to do something?
Given the state of the country's economy, which is bankrupt, and they don't want to recognize it for political reasons. I don't doubt anything.
What they have to do is give up. They just apologize for the inconvenience and that doesn't solve anything. Corruption has taken over this country. There's no shame. This is speechless.
every day worse
Now they are also going to take away bread, thank God I don't have a small child, because the poor don't eat today's bread so they can guarantee their snack tomorrow and if they take it away, there would be no snack if I had small children with me there would be no school even if it were sanctioned, 0 milk, zero yogurt and now zero bread defensively we are going from bad to worse, but oh well, we will resist like legitimate sheep.
God bless the people of Cuba. Blessings
There is nothing to comment on, everything is said and done, the only thing left for slaves is to serve their masters and suffer mistreatment throughout their lives. They have deceived us with promises of social equality to keep them in power, living like kings at the expense of the misery that a great majority of the humble people who inhabit this country live in.
Please carefully consider until what age you will be delivering bread. Because school age doesn't end at 13, so high school students don't eat breakfast? Pay close attention to this aspect. Most of our people can't afford expensive bread.