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At four o'clock in the morning, people line up near the Buen Viaje market in Santa Clara. Everyone wants to buy pork at 16 pesos a pound. To enter, you must pay 1 peso in national currency. "There are more lines here than at José Martí airport," says one retiree.
Jacinto lives in retirement and every Sunday he takes one, two or three in the queue of Buen Viaje. Thanks to the fact that since the previous night he is planted in the vicinity of this stadium where the agricultural fair is organized, every Sunday, at ten o'clock in the morning, he returns home with some bistecitos in the jabita. Those who sleep in the morning must be content with cuts and fat.
On the Buen Viaje, they take a few legs, because those who really make August are the dealers. "There are those who get up at six in the morning and lack meat, they must be satisfied with their skin," says Jacinto to Cubanet .
Meanwhile, the official press talks about how the province overcomes or what production. But one thing is government newspapers and another goes through Placetas, where meat never reaches the markets.
The food shortage in Villa Clara was worse since the local government temporarily priced, and threatened with a heavy hand in inspections after the pbadage of Storm Alberto.
El Chino, a trader, has stopped selling because he's not giving him business. Your case is not unique. Other operators did the same and started working left
Since then, in the private agribusiness, there is exactly the same thing as in public companies. "It's not that we do not have them, it's that at these prices we do not want to sell them, and that's why we do not take them out on the street." , explains a cuentapropista.
Olga Jimenez drags her husband with her to buy chicken at the store in foreign currency because if you go alone, you sell less: now you touch 1 kg per person and 5 packages of sausages per consumer. The rationalization has also reached the Cimex stores, which look empty. The only thing that is not exhausted boxes of tuna at 8.00 CUC, a prohibitive price in a country where the average salary is 29.60 CUC.
Currently, in the agro-markets of Villa Clara, there is only mango, sweet potato, banana, garlic, onion There is nothing to make a salad.
Those who do not reach pork at 16 pesos on the Buen Viaje have no choice but to buy it more at La Casa del Lechón. applause. "It's hungry and the rest is boogey" says an old man.
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