2024-02-13 01:50:54
A week after his tour was interrupted by the fall from grace of the former Minister of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil, Miguel Díaz-Canel resumed his trips to the island’s provinces. During his visit this Thursday to Ciego de Ávila, However, the regime’s intentions changed: “In the previous tour we visited successful experiences throughout the country. Now we are going to places where things do not work so well to, together, look for solutions,” the president said in his account. of X.
An extensive article published by Cubadebate follows the president’s trail of scoldings for the municipality of Ciro Redondo. First, the Center for Reproduction of Entomophages and Entomopathogens of the municipality’s sugar company, “a long-term project promoted by Fidel decades ago,” and which has had a tough start this year.
As explained by the leaders to the delegation of Díaz-Canel and Roberto Morales Ojeda –secretary of the Central Committee of the Party–, the company dedicated to raising larvae and manufacturing products to combat pests in crops has been facing a serious shortage of raw materials since the beginning of the year. essentials such as wax and honey.
With the “intervention of the provincial government”, however, Azcuba delivered enough raw materials for the company to work.
“Last year they made more than four million specimens available to their clients to combat pests, but the lack of supplies in January and early February of this year has forced them to reduce the supply to just 100,000 larvae, less a third of what they produced monthly in 2023,” summarizes the newspaper. The state company Azcuba is responsible for delivering the products through its contracts with suppliers in the province, but until now it has not given clear answers about the supply.
With the “intervention of the provincial government”, however, Azcuba delivered enough raw materials for the company to work for the next six months, which has allowed the regime, once again, to strengthen the idea that the correct orders are given. from the Government, but at the regional level they are not fulfilled, so they are not to blame for the economic debacle. The recent collapse of the heads of the Ministries of Economy and Food, however, say otherwise.
“This is not how we work, this is not how we are going to move forward,” said Diaz-Canel, who pointed out the situation of the industry as an example of “complacency”, “passivity” and “bureaucracy” of managers, when they should look for alternative solutions. on your own. Which is it? The president did not say.
Similar situations occurred in the municipality’s bioelectric plant – under mixed administration between China and Cuba –, which must generate energy for the operation of the Ciro Redondo sugar mill, “the most modern in the country” and in which the State, assures Cubadebatehas invested million-dollar sums, as well as in the plant, which since 2020 “has not managed to maintain stability in its operation.”
“It is very difficult for me to understand why in more than three years an investment like this has not had results,” the president questioned and asked the Cuban and Chinese parties to find solutions. “Here we have buried the country’s money,” he stated, and called on the directors of the bioelectric plant to follow in the footsteps of the plant that, although in practice it has not been able to join the harvest, keeps its fields cultivated and nourishes production. from other factories.
The torula factory (a species of yeast), as well as the production of ice and biostimulants for crops, also suffer from the inefficiency of bioelectricity.
The torula factory (a species of yeast), as well as the production of ice and biostimulants for crops, also suffer from the inefficiency of bioelectricity, the delegation lamented. “The Cuban president inquired with those responsible for the UEB and the company about alternatives (…) to get out of the lethargy. But he did not have strong answers from managers and specialists,” the newspaper asserts.
Finally, the visit to the local polyclinic and a meeting with residents of the municipality gave Díaz-Canel the perfect opportunity to expose the new position of the regime already used in past decades by Fidel Castro: resorting to the local “lack of initiatives” as the cause. of all the financial ills of the Island. The plan to get the economy back on track, he added, will be to visit a municipality in each province every month to “help solve problems and also share experiences.”
“I believe that this combination of recognizing what works poorly and can be overcome, especially the role that groups play in each place (…), can lead us to a path where, for ourselves, for our talent and With our efforts, we can overcome the problems,” said the president, who insisted on another common excuse: the embargo.
“Why do some, with a blockade, have results and why others, with a blockade, do not achieve it?” The answer, the president assures, lies in his well-known slogan: “creative resistance.”
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