The Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN) updated this Thursday on the latest news regarding the delivery of basic food basket products in Cuba for the remainder of April and into May. We'll update you below.
According to the official, in note From the Ministry of National Institute of Statistics and Census (MINCIN), they first acknowledged that nothing has gone as planned, and there is much dissatisfaction due to delays and inconsistent sales of products, due to the gradual arrival of some products and the non-arrival of others. As a result, it is almost never known what will be next.
From eastern Cuba, in Santiago de Cuba, they specified that this is what is happening right now with the delivery of basic food products in that area of Cuba.
Delivery of basic food basket products in Cuba
In this regard, Juan Carlos Rosell Zarrabeitia announced important measures to improve food distribution in the province.
- Additional rice: This month's rice is guaranteed, and an additional kilogram is given to all consumers.
- Age groups: The extra kilogram is maintained for children (0-14 years) and seniors (over 60) in March and April.
- Faster delivery: We're working tirelessly to shorten delivery times to warehouses, especially in hard-to-reach areas.
- Chained operations: Port, warehouse, and trade unit operations are coordinated 24 hours a day to optimize distribution.
- Greater control: The demands for controlling resources and addressing irregularities are increasing.
- Sugar: The first two pounds have already been delivered, and the remaining pounds will be distributed as production at the Dos Ríos sugar mill progresses.
They detailed that there is a shortage of peas in some territories, and coffee distribution would begin, even though production does not meet demand. They also confirmed that the distribution of eggs (5 per consumer) has begun.
They stated that the product with the longest delay is salt, as there are debts dating back to December 2023.
Week after week, several Cuban provinces update the status of the delivery of basic food basket products, as they did last week. Villa Clara and now Santiago did.
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I don't know what's more terrifying: the information about the missing basket of "basic products" or the comments about the delay, the knowledge of transportation problems, and so on, plus the fact that the complaint about salt is incomprehensible! It's been freely available all along. We deserve the misery, believe me.
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In Santiago de Cuba they only gave one pound of sugar, not two as the information says, and three pounds of rice only.
The kilograms of children and adults are still conspicuous by their absence. Well, this is the only thing we've received in the warehouses of Santiago de Cuba.
I have a concern.cupation. About when they are going to sell milk, even once, to people and children who are malnourished or underweight. Who should receive this product in their medical diet. Please, these people also need to drink and buy their milk for their diet. For this individual, this milk is too expensive.
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I don't understand the extra kilo of rice for children aged 0 to 14 and over 60. When did that happen? I'm in both cases and I've never seen that extra.
What happens is that there is no one who really controls what is given in the warehouses, many things have never reached the town. I am over 60 years old and have seen little. They are stealing in your face and you don't see it.
WHERE DOES THE KG OF RICE GO FOR PEOPLE OVER 60 WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN IT, OR IS IT ANOTHER LIE FROM THIS SYSTEM OF LIARS IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING?
Here they have only given Norman rice per kilo for free, we are still waiting for it and they only gave 840g of sugar and 960g, they still need to give 120g plus the other 2lb
The rice hasn't arrived here for free, the 7 pounds have, and the sugar only came in at 840 grams per consumer, the oil didn't come in its entirety and so on. We don't know when they will give us the 120g of sugar that are missing for the two pounds plus the other pound that is missing as well.
I do not know where we are going to end up with so many lies, here in GTMO since last April 21 of this year was that the distribution of the basic basket to the warehouses began, but in the media they say something else, because they deceive the people, we are living off misery or war rations that they distribute to us now every two months by the ration book, because now we send them from the basic basket is for 2 months and while you give it to that? that goes to a school, or to that old man you have at home, and the worst thing living off the MSMEs with a minimum wage, what to do where is that kilogram of rice, the 2 pounds of sugar, apart from the fact that they do not arrive on time they deceive us, even. the few
That's a lie, the minister says it to stay in office and maintain her good life, she doesn't go through that problem.
Keep commenting, I'm tired, I can't take it anymore, I don't care if I'm the injured person or the ambulance driver, in the end they kill us every day, a little better to do it once and for all, because charging, the bull dies with more dignity than in the slaughterhouse.
I'm from Villa Clara, I have two underweight girls and I've never been on a diet, but they've never given me that rice they talk about. In each district they've never given even a packet of sausage, which they give to other parts of the municipality. Where are we going with so much disrespect?
I would like to ask when we can have our morning coffee, it is almost never the case that adults have nothing for breakfast either, we don't order much even if it is just coffee, I live in Santa Clara and these days I roast coffee in the earthworks the smoke and the smell reached my house, there may be a blockade but the reality is part blockade and part neglect, I am not disaffected but I am not blind either, we have to be sincere and not remain silent when something does not work well, I learned that since I received the Martian doctrine and then those of my commander in chief, that is why anything that has no justification I do not approve and I raise it.
My grandmother always told us that those who work are those who eat. Poor thing, if she lived in these times, she'd realize that those who don't work and go into business are the ones who manage to get something to eat.
Prices are skyrocketing and retirement is becoming less and less affordable.
They don't even fulfill what they advertise about the basic food basket. Pinocchio is a suckling pig compared to the lies the State tells us daily.
May God protect us
They should hold an extraordinary session of the ANPP and go change the government leaders, who have not been able to recupera of economic disaster and
It's not just the December salt that's in debt. I'm from Santiago, Antonio Maceo district, and they never gave us the basic food basket of oil; it seems like it was forgotten.
I have two elderly adults, both 84 years old, both with dementia, and I have never received anything. They are both bedridden. Only the six of them are bedridden. I am from the province of Santi Spiritud.
I am 63 years old and I have never received anything for being over 60 years old. I would like to know if this thing about the kilo of rice is true. In my warehouse, they did not give me anything in March, and I hope they do not in April either. Although you say that in March and April you will give 1 kg of rice to AGE groups over 60 years old.
I HOPE IT'S TRUE
I have an adult over 60 years old (78) and he has never received anything additional. I want to know more details.
Since when do they give 1 kg of rice to people over 60 years old?
I'm 60 years old and I've never been given anything extra. I just found out that people over 60 get some extra products. I'll have to ask the grocer.
What is the basic basket of our leaders?
They are vulnerable ????
I think the same…
With all due respect!
Our
President Díaz-Canel and the entire presidential leadership are not getting the basic food basket...
Because they are veryyy chubby and red!
Please…
Stop fooling the people with promises!
If they don't have a solution to the people's food problems and other needs...
GO AWAY!
And make way for a system that can do it.
Because the people are not fed by good intentions…
I know you have good intentions!
But the people need food, medicine, electricity…
If you are not able to provide it… CHANGE THIS SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT!
MAKE A PLEIVISIT, AND
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THIS SACRIFICE!
It is of no use for a people to be starving and in need while their top leaders are living the lives of millionaires.
CONSULT THE PEOPLE IF THEY WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THIS SACRIFICE!
Thanks for your attention.
I completely agree with you. The well-being of the people is not being considered. This, my Cuban people, is sadly dejected, exhausted, saddened. In short, there are no words to describe such sacrilege in which my beloved people find themselves. No more suffering, please, no more. Do something, or I don't know how far we'll end up. This is said by someone who can't take it anymore, a mother, a daughter, a sister, because behind her is an entire family full of needs. And what they say about Cubans being scumbags because we adapt to this system is pure fiction, because if it were in our hands, many things would happen. And let me clarify, I'm not speaking ill of my country, because I feel Cuban through and through and I love my country. But if the system were different, no one would have to migrate to another country, unless they were just going for a vacation.
I no longer believe what officials say about the "basic" basket. Every time they talk, I see no results.
April 20th and in Guanajay only rice (7 pounds) and oil; it is possible that the comments that it iscucho: that's in the city of Havana
I'm 71 and I haven't had any additional rice. If it's true that they'll sell rice in March and April, they should be clear so people understand and demand it. This article talks about an additional 1 kilo for the entire population and 1 kilo for children and the elderly. How long will this story last? At the beginning of the year, they sold 6 instead of the established 7 pounds, and they haven't sold anything additional or extra. Please...
Monterrey, San Miguel del Padrón
I can't believe it, everyone has nothing today, the 20th. I live in the heights of LA and there are two warehouses loading rice and wine for 7 pounds and nothing more. That 9 pounds thing isn't true, they never gave me any and the additional ones nothing. You have to bring another truck to bring the two pounds, no chicken, no coffee, no oil, no salt or sugar. Who is the one who has to do with the distribution of food so that they change the staff of the Ministry of Internal Commerce because food is not a game and even less for the people because it seems that they are losing their memory and they forget the distribution, but I think it's a joke to stop and tell lies, you can see problems with everything but, gentlemen, this is speechless. In my life and I am 69 years old, I have seen similar things, a country like ours with natural riches and even a pineapple is worth 150, a mango, a mamey and that, gentlemen, grows everywhere and the prices are enormous and they do not come from abroad. I am not saying that the senior officials live like the people but if we have to prioritize feeding the people I earn 1500 for retirement, imagine and retired due to an occupational illness, anywhere I would be a millionaire, 20 years of work in health, then do not be offended when people go out to the streets the first thing is to collect everyone who does not work, so they do not steal, the police that in my life has made a complaint and you do not understand the procedure and the law does not say that, get your batteries with everything that should be respected in this country, a police officer tells me that he does not have to take care of me, we are unprotected and I speak as a Cuban with all the right that the constitution of the republic gives me, when the ministries were the ones that had to do with everything it was never like that, now many people, who do nothing, earn by leadership and do not solve anything, everything has gone to hell, gentlemen, what do we need to kill each other due to the aggressiveness that exists in my country and you have nowhere to go because no one does their job, if I talk a lot and understand that I could be in prison and I don't believe it, I have revolutionary roots, and not those who earned it by marching and forming youth brigades like my father and my uncles, martyrs of the truth too. I hope my letter is a way to straighten this country, it's up to you, Mr. President.
Daniel Miranda Guanabacoa.
We have never received that ghost rice - neither have my wife or granddaughter, what do you know?
The fellow president should take a good look at himself, because his TV appearances don't seem to convince him. Thank you.
This is for the authorities of the province and the country, in the warehouses around 54th and 35th streets in Playa that belong to the area that is at the address 44th and 41st streets in Playa, it belongs to the Mincin Retail Company, people over 60 years old have never been given a kilo of rice, look for who ate it or the warehouse owners made money selling it at astronomical prices (nothing is controlled, even potatoes are sold at the state post for 100 cup to the cart drivers and they sell it to the population at 250 cup per pound, there is no control on anything wherever the state sells products at state prices they are bottomless barrels, a shame with so much work and effort what does the government do to make it available to the people). In this area only 7 lbs of rice has entered the warehouses (no sugar has entered or the rest of what the 1st program from the presidency said? Or is it that the warehouse owners do not say it to keep the products, it should be spread by radio, TV, social networks, Tribuna de la Habana, etc.
Margot, they've never given me an extra kilo of rice in the warehouse. I'm 63 years old, with a mane of hair.
In Sancti Spiritus, they also do not give the kilo of rice to those over 60.
WHY WOULD I COMMENT ON IT? BECAUSE EVEN THAT'S DIRECTED (TELLING LIES)
WHEN YOU TELL THE TRUTH, THEY DON'T PUBLISH IT. MARTI SAID: WE SHOULD NOT CALL ANY CUBAN WHO DOESN'T THINK LIKE ME VILE.
The green dish soap, which came with laundry soap, bath soap, and toothpaste, has not been included in the basic food basket for months at our warehouse in San Diego del Valle, Cifuentes municipality, Clara.
All the comments made are true, don't waste any more time reporting anything, you pretend you don't hear anything, in the end your tables are set and it's not what they serve in the wineries, it's been said quite clearly, buy in the micro-enterprises those who can and those who can't can go to hell, as they said...
In Camagüey, at least my delivery to the garden the day before yesterday brought the rice for 7 pounds, but the kilogram is nowhere to be seen.
In the warehouse on 221 Street, Cruz Verde Cotorro Subdivision, they have never given the kilos of rice they claim to be giving to people over 60 years old (I am 78) or to children under 4 years old. In addition, how is it explained that in our Cupet They only deliver every 30 days or so: we had 2 ground cigarettes, 1 package of detergent, and a 1-pound bottle of oil. When the cigarettes arrive, they run out in the first hour of delivery, and then you see many resellers with several rolls of this product selling the pack for 2 pesos or more...???
In other municipalities such as A.Naranjo, La Lisa, etc.
They sell to the population through the same distribution system: 5-liter tubs of yogurt, 4-liter boxes of ice cream, oil, chicken, detergent, minced meat, shampoo, fabric softener, soaps, and even LED cold light tubes...????
I ask myself again: Why?
I expect a concise answer without blah,
blah, blah
In this municipality of San Juan and Martinez de Pinar del Rio, they haven't even given a kilo of rice to children or those over 60, just like those modules they're giving out from China. They need to find out who's taking it. Thank you.
In Colón, Matanzas province, they have never given the additional 2 pounds of rice to those over 60. And they haven't given anything to vulnerable cases either.
Here in the Camajuani municipality, there is a shortage of sugar-free warehouses. Two pounds of additional rice arrived yesterday, but the other 2 pounds are missing, as well as coffee, etc.
Here in Florida Camagüey, nothing has been distributed to our warehouses this April.
Please, the oil, come in, it should have come in last month and nothing.
In Guanabacoa they sold this April, X person; 7 pounds of rice and 3 of sugar, 5 eggs PLUS NOTHING.
> That extra kilo of rice for those over 60, I am 76, and I have not even seen it.
Hello, here in Arroyo in Santa Amalia, they have never given that rice to people over 60 years old, I don't even remember.
I wonder if they are not ashamed of the people. No, this system is like the guataca.
They are starving us and psychologically killing us. The only thing that is in line with the price of food for retirement is the RATIONING book. You can't buy anything on the street, outrageous prices. God knows how many people are already dying from curable diseases and malnutrition, secret information, and they put another cause of death on the death certificate. Before, they gave sick people food through the RATIONING book. Mind you, the book is not subsidized, it is a price relative to what most people are paid.
Here in the plain only the two pounds of free rice have entered, neither the milk, nor the sugar, nor the compotes, nor the oil, nor the cigarettes have entered.
Here in Guira de Melena municipality of Artemisa province they have never given the kilo of rice to children 0-14 years old.
Please, you have to learn to read. When it says "additional rice is kept for children and the elderly," that's on paper, but not in the distribution. They're a bunch of stick figures.
Here in Florida Camagüey, nothing has been distributed to our warehouses this April.
When will they give the oil? It's already April and in the municipality of East Havana, nothing at all?
In a TV appearance by the president and the Minister of Domestic Trade, it was stated that April would see an improvement in physical distribution and the timing of the so-called basket. I won't specify the products. Today is April 19th, and absolutely nothing has arrived at my warehouse #108 in San Justo, Guantanamo, from this month. Why believe they don't almost always deceive?
Well, I would like to know if somewhere they gave them the four pounds of sugar for the month of March because here in Centro Habana they still haven't given them and for the month of April they already gave 2 lb per consumer, that is to say, forget about what's missing from March and that rice I have never taken, neither for the girl nor for the adults, those must be for another province, you know.
A lot of lies and disrespect for the people, from the president to the minister of domestic trade and all the other ministers and officials who with great impudence appeared on television to lie that this month the miserable amount of products on offer was guaranteed, and not even that, because according to the notes published in many provinces and municipalities, nothing has arrived.
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The salt doesn't arrive in the baskets, but it's available at 120 in the bakeries on the hill.
In Centro Habana they gave me the salt and 7 lbs of rice, the chicharros, the sugar and the cigarettes
What happened with medical diets? For example, I have been sick with AIDS for 35 years and I also have kidney failure, and they have practically taken everything away from me.
Here in Pinar del Río there is a delay with several products and it is because of the million-dollar debt that the San Luis Trading Company has with the Suppliers, to such an extent that the entity's account is seized and they cannot make payments and purchases, and all of this affects the people and is known by the authorities of the province and they do nothing and in the end the people pay.
Here in Pinar del Río there is a delay with several products and it is because of the million-dollar debt that the San Luis Trading Company has with the Suppliers, to such an extent that the entity's account is seized and they cannot make payments and purchases, and all of this affects the people and is known by the authorities of the province and they do nothing and in the end the people pay.
Here in Pinar del Río there is a delay with several products and it is because of the million-dollar debt that the San Luis Trading Company has with the Suppliers, to such an extent that the entity's account is seized and they cannot make payments and purchases, and all of this affects the people and is known by the authorities of the province and they do nothing and in the end the people pay.
In Quivican Prv Mayabeque they have never given the additional rice that is referred to. I have two granddaughters who fall within the range of 0 to 14 and they have not given it to them either.
I'm from GTMO, since they gave the orientation that the distribution of the basic basket would be done, in the newspaper Venceremos, they updated that they were dismantling the products from Santiago and Boquerón directly to the warehouses, it indicated that they gave the information since April 3 and today is the 19th and nothing of one product or another in many warehouses, only salt.
MARTI SAID: MORE THAN WHITE, MORE THAN MULATTO, MORE THAN BLACK. SAY MAN AND EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID. I SAY: MORE THAN LIES, MORE THAN HUNGER. MORE THAN MISERY, SAY COMMUNISM AND EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID.
In Mayabeque, the municipality of Bejucal received 4 lb of sugar and 7 lb of rice, peas, and oil. Coffee and 60 kg of rice per child and those over XNUMX years of age and salt are missing. Thanks for the trouble.
This mess is here to stay, don't even fight anymore, what you don't give anymore, this is called miphime, whoever can buy, buy, whoever can't, screw themselves.
I am from Güines, Mayabeque province. Since when have they been giving rice to people over 60 years old? I have never received it at the grocery store where I buy it.
I am from LAWTON and this month's rice arrived with a shortage, until when will the population that did not get enough have to wait for the shortage to be replaced, that is why we are not making progress because I know how things are going very poorly.
What promise do the beneficiaries over 60 years of age receive? They receive a kilogram of rice because I am 77 years old, I live in Havana, I am diabetic and I do not receive any diet or anything. Greetings, waiting for a response.
And to think that the minister said on the program with the president that everything was secured for April, it is true that everything is lie after lie and there is no way this will improve because they do not have to worry.cuparse for these products.
I am from Granma and in my municipality Media Luna 7 pounds of rice, but not the extra kilo, nor coffee, nor supplement for children up to 14 and over 60, and much less oil.
I don't know why there are so many lies and inconsistencies in everything they say. Nothing ever fits together, nor does it have anything to do with what they report. Like the oil, which is delayed. I go to the even-numbered centers. The odd-numbered ones have to keep waiting as if we had everything squared. Things in my country are no longer easy. You have to live it to feel it.
As a Cuban, I get very sad when I read all the opinions expressed in this medium, because everyone agrees on the same approach. You are all right, it is true that so much information, God, the Minister of Commerce has not fulfilled anything, it is as if, to get out of the way in the appearance with the president, they gave him that communication to make him believe that work was being done, that the situation of the basic food basket in the country was being followed up and that they had the solution in hand. There is much discontent among the population and that makes me sad because I am also one of those affected, but I love my country, I love my Cuba, I want my revolution, I want my comandante and according to himcucNow, every day among the residents, the criterion is that we are reaching a situation that will lead us to take to the streets to see if that way the problems can be resolved or if it gets worse than it is. During our commander's term, many difficult moments arose, and yet he knew how to do things in a way that the people understood and in the end the problem was solved. This matter of the prices is unbearable. No retiree can live on what they earn because, as many say, the VIPMEs have to die and these are a means of exploitation of man by man. The prices that are set are not justified because they are too high. Today they sell a product at one price and tomorrow it dawns at another. Neither the municipal government nor the party do anything to resolve the situation. Eye eye.
Here in Cienfuegos municipality, those over 60 years old should not be given that additional rice, only the additional kilo that all consumers receive, or is it perhaps not valid for everyone?
I'm sure that establishment is a national avant-garde because I'm sure very few wineries in the country have those conditions and the employees wearing gloves are obviously posing for a photo.
Because in our municipality minors (0-14) do not receive the benefit of the kg of rice
Here, by law, only rice and cigarettes are allowed in, no coffee, no oil from March and April, much less sugar, no coffee, not even a pound of sugar has entered this municipality.
Will we have to take to the streets to see if we can make progress like Santiago de Cuba?
Not a single pound of sugar, oil, or coffee has arrived in the Playa municipality.
blah, blah, blah.
Here in Caney, Santiago de Cuba, we have already received all the complete products, only the coffee remains.
It is good to say that the products are received in the warehouses any day of the week and their distribution begins immediately until late at night.
Our president Yaneydi keeps us updated on what's coming from the port and through social media.
Thanks to everyone involved in this process
Here in Caney de Santiago we have already received the oil, only coffee is still pending.
It must be acknowledged that the products arrive and no matter the day of the week, distribution immediately begins until late at night.
Since they arrive at the port, our president Yaneydis informs us from there.
They've been selling free salt all the time. Why is the delivery of this basic food basket product considered a delay? I'm from Contramaestre, Santiago de Cuba province.
Not only in eastern Cuba, we have to be vigilant because with the fractionation of products, we don't know which cycle or month it corresponds to. The salt issue is unheard of, an island surrounded by sea...
Good morning. I live in Lawton.
Here in my market, nothing has entered the rice?
and the toilet.
I need to know when the deliveries of the other products that are missing from the month of April will be made.
because look at the date
I understand that there is a problem with the transportation issue
But sometimes the products come into other warehouses and nothing at all comes into the market where I buy them.
Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience caused
I don't even do that.
Regarding the product Salt, I don't know why there is so much shortage, since it is everywhere on the streets and the amount that corresponds to us hasn't arrived yet.
everything is a lie