Pockets speak. They could tell compelling stories of hopes, expenses and debts. Each one is a character that comes to life when we have to become a magician and make money for various expenses of a Cuban family. Of course, some bigger and stronger pockets do not worry if prices increace or if high demand products become more expensive for the population... as it has happened this year and is already happening with food from.
Now, with the new laws in San Antonio de los Baños and nationwide, pockets show slight smiles, slight because they do not adapt to a reality that can still undergo transformations. I refer to the high prices of agricultural products in the network of state trading markets. Since January 12th, the situation was favorable for the economically disadvantaged people, the majority who can not and will not pay 15 or 20 pesos for four tomatoes, or for an alleged malanga pound. As I have already said in another comment: life is not for paying whims.
Meanwhile, several entities are working together. Cooperatives hired 80 percent of their production with the state. They will use them for social consumption, prioritized public health and Education centers and will distribut them with established prices. In Ariguanabo, we have ´´The Anchar´´, State Market for those who can not pay the high prices of the so-called ´´carretilleros´´. Of course, I consider that measures to benefit farmers were valid.
Thus, according to seasons and weather conditions, the Ariguanabenses will pay 1 peso for a potato pound, taro 4, donkey banana 1 , tomatoes and chili pepper 5 pesos, pumpkin 2 as well as cucumber and other affordable prices that were announced in the media across the country. This undoubtedly is a just and necessary alternative.