Florida, Feb. 20 – In the Cuban environment there is talk of capped and regulated prices, of supply and demand, of cost tabs to sign them and of a control that not even the best of magicians know how to achieve it with certainty.
Bread and fish multiplied here every minute, not so much in their quantity as in their cost to the people’s pockets; rice magically disappeared and triumphantly returned at almost double the previous price, and heads of garlic with microcephaly quoted at scandalous amounts, are some of the realities of the informal and private market in Florida and beyond, where the state counterweight is practically nil and the fight against abuse and speculation demands rigor and exemplary measures.
On the prices of agriculture products, the Concertation Committee and the mission of the productive bases in the control of the amount that the people must pay to buy food, journalist Pedro Pablo Sáez Herrera talks to Yudier Peña Vargas, deputy superintendent in charge of the Agriculture and Azcuba programs in the municipality of Florida.
