San José.— January 1, 2021 differs from previous similar cases in 61 years of 1959 in Cuba.
Although the incansable propaganda of communist regime repeating a petition to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution, the first day of 2021 saw in practice an official economic package that included state subsidies in several millennial and new urban areas of the Antilles.
Search for the most graph Economic crisis en el siglo XXI y una de las más agudas desde 1959, el Cuba Communist Party (PCC) has begun to apply its own program of adjustment without precedent in the island from its total power of state capital blinded to a socialist economy.
With prognosticators of inflation and devaluation being separate, the Cubans enfrentan, precisely from the day of the ephemeris, an increase in the food canast and the rates of gas, water, electricity and telephony services, with a unification monetary exchange to the dollar and a salary increase.
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“It impresses me neoliberalism pure in a system of monopolistic capitalism state. The consequences will be for the most vulnerable: the majority mayor ”, said the dissident Dagoberto Valdés, religious, agronomic engineer, social scientist and director of Convivencia, digital Cuban magazine.
“Cuba is applying the same rule that it governs critics of Latin American and Caribbean countries in that this type of justice increases the gap, the abyss, between the very powers that be disputed by the pains of the state monopoly and the majority of the people. , if it has more power ”, affirmed Valdés, former member of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Vatican City, at the UNIVERSAL. “It is an adjustment of the belt to an economy that has been depleted,” he said.
From the opposite side, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Cuba, Alejandro Fernández, assures that “strategy does not dollarize the economy”.
The constant aperture of state shops in dollars in a country with coins in Cuban currency due to the recruiting of the economic “block” that Washington imposed on La Habana in 1962, to the failure of the minor market, the lack of combustibles and the collateral impact of the coronavirus, subtraction.
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The governing body guarantees that the speculation will be accompanied by essential articles and the dollar.
In a message on the 62nd anniversary of the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, proclaimed that “we will come” in 2021. The first Cuban minister, Manuel Marrero, detached the “resistance” gewilde frente al acoso de Estados Unidos y tuiteó: “Sí se pudo, sí se puede y semper se podra”.
The amount accumulated by the United States’ sanctions in excess of 58 years increased to 144 million 413 million dollars, according to the Cuban Chancellery.
Cuba Navajo has the last night of 2020 in a monetary duality and cambiaria that creó in 1994, with pesos in two denominations — Cuban and convertible— and different contribution ante the dollar. The convertible was split and for 2021 only the Cuban left, in the midst of a surge in priority housing that will take place from 2018.
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The regime pays its employees in pesos, per abró tends in dollars with products that, in the popular jerga, “are lost” in the local world.
The PCC, a unique political force in a country without multiparty, passed the minimum wage of 400 pesos (one 16 dollars) from 2019 to 2 mil 100 (one 87 dollars), to lower the cost of living.
For the opposition periodical Yoani Sánchez, director of the digital diary 14ymedio.com that operates illegally in Cuba, the increase in prices and tariffs and the end of the subsidies served to increase in 2021: “The year to say goodbye to the revolutionary mask”.