Crisis in Cuba: The regime began to reduce the weight of subsidized bread due to the shortage of flour

Published Sep 14, 2024

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The Cuban government has reduced the weight of subsidized bread from 80 grams to 60 grams due to a wheat flour shortage, which they attribute to U.S. economic sanctions. This measure is intended to sustain supply during the island's severe economic crisis, worsened by the pandemic, slow tourism recovery, and monetary policy mistakes. The crisis has led to a significant population decline and unprecedented protests, with estimates of the population drop ranging from 10% since 2020 to 18% in 2022-2023. A formal census has been postponed until at least 2025.

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The Cuban regime began to reduce the weight of the subsidized bread it delivers with the ration card this Friday due to the “low availability” of wheat flour in the country, according to official media. Starting today, the bread will go from the current 80 grams to 60. The Castro Executive stressed that the measure seeks to ensure that, despite the lack of supplies, the supply can be maintained while the island recovers from the “circumstantial situation” in which it finds itself. It is not the first time that the country has gone through a crisis of shortage of wheat flour - which it must import - in recent years. At the beginning of 2024, the Miguel Díaz-Canel regime acknowledged that it would not be able to guarantee the subsidized bread in the basic basket by March for the same reason. According to the Ministry of Food Industry (Minal), the island has a “low availability” of raw materials for the production of bread due to “the scarce financing” caused, according to the ...

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