Some ration card changes

[El Presidente]

https://havanatimes.org/features/economic-crunch-forces-cuba-to-forego-rationing-system/

HAVANA TIMES – The unsustainable economic situation of the Island has led the Government to establish a shock plan starting at the beginning of 2024. Among the main measures announced by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero on the first day of the second ordinary session of the National Assembly, are the increases in prices of products and services and the end of the universal subsidy for limited basic foods sold through the rationing system.

Regarding the rationed market, Marrero argued that the objective is to move to “subsidizing people and not products” to achieve “a fairer and more efficient scheme,” tacitly recognizing the increase in social and economic inequalities.

“It is not fair that those who have a lot receive the same as those who have very little. Today we subsidize the same to an elderly pensioner as to the owner of large private businesses who has a lot of money,” he argued.

Thus, he continued, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security must identify people by their degree of “vulnerability,” so as to “not leave anyone helpless.” The latter group will be able to continue acquiring highly subsidized basic products with the ration card.

[MrBirdman]

“Although in his speech … Gil listed a whole string of administrative calamities, he clarified that the disaster cannot be attributed to the Cuban Government’s management of the crisis, but rather to…“

Good thing he clarified that. 

One can’t help but marvel at the level of cognitive dissonance achieved there in less than a single sentence. No bonus points for being able to finish the second half.