The first guinea pigs exported to Miami, Unites States are sold for $40 per unit

The first shipment of export guinea pig from the province of Azuay arrived in the United States. It entered Miami on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 20, and hopes to complete the customs process to be marketed in New York among Ecuadorian migrants. It took 665 days for Galo Tenezaca, Omar Bohojorque and Dayana Sanmartín to send the first shipment of guinea pig azuayo to the North American country, becoming the first to export this product under the name Mr. Cuy. YOU MAY BE INTERESTED (La Pata Gorda will open in Miami with Ecuadorian labor) This venture began in May 2022, when Tenezaca saw the need to offer Ecuadorians in the United States an Ecuadorian product that preserves the original flavor of the traditional Cuenca dish. “There (the US) they eat guinea pig, but it is not Ecuadorian and even less Cuencan. Those of us who are from this land know that the flavor is very different thanks to the way guinea pigs are raised in rural areas,” he pointed out. This gave them the ...