The machinery of the monetary ordering in Cuba is greased. A major process that is, undoubtedly, the largest economic transformation ever carried out within the Revolution and that involves and transfigures all sectors of society.
It is greased, yes, because after less than a month of the implementation of the main measures it is very difficult to give an accurate judgment of what is to come, without nuances.
The road we are on is going through inflation which, not because it has been announced, ceases to be lacerating, and also through a brutal shortage of supplies which has become more serious with each turn of the screw of the US blockade and the liquidity dilemma of the national economy.
A convulsive panorama to which other daily realities are added. Among them, something as apparently simple as the fact that now more than a generation of Cubans (including myself) will have to learn that 25.00 pesos are just that, 25.00 pesos, without making other calculations.
I write this and I remember the anecdote of that daughter from this island who had just arrived in Madrid, horrified because she had to give three euros for a pound of blackeye peas. I wouldn't be caught dead paying more than 75 pesos for the beans of my whole life, she said, in a frank astonishment because it was usual for her to do the accounts of the purchases several times in her head in different currencies, which were one, but did not weigh the same. A big mess.
Of course, we are not in Spain, prices are high and it cannot be that taking food to the table is the eternal recipe for national happiness; fortunately, life is more than that. And I believe that the regulation is the first concrete step to redirect that mistaken certainty in the heads of many.
I also do not fully understand certain absurdities at the time of making public the prices of products that are of local subordination; and I am happy, although some see shadows, that those that were born crooked for the people were adjusted. Thus, the few days of empty ice cream parlors are anecdotes of the start, and the bread from the bodega at 1.00 peso (something that, by the way, cannot become the center of the economic order in Las Tunas) begins to worry more for its quality than for the 30.00 pesos that we will pay for its purchase at the end of the month.
To say what is true, from the argument and personal experience, is right, the same in social networks as in the queues and even in the bus; but, do not close the door to other truths. The country has been prepared for this, yes. To the point that the Labor Directorate in each municipality has been instructed to be aware of which grandparents have stopped going to the canteens of the Family Assistance System (SAF) and to know the specific causes of each case, in a very particular way.
The authorities have set up channels for reporting illegalities in the province and monitor what, in my opinion, is the most important, the popular sentiment.
Let this, which is now our dynamic of life, move forward, before demonizing names and processes. Remember that we are reordering in the midst of a pandemic that is in its third peak, and national experts are still being consulted to continue improving various decisions. Do not hesitate, at every step, we all count.
