Indeed, prices continue to skyrocket in Cuba, and a liter of oil is worth more than a retiree or pensioner on the island earns, according to the latest reports on social networks.
Oil is once once more a luxury in Cuba with skyrocketing prices and empty pockets. Cubans once once more face the bitter reality of the shortage of oil, a basic product in the daily diet. The price of a liter has reached the exorbitant figure of 1,500 pesos, hitting hard the already weakened pockets of the population.
So much so, that the price of this liter of oil is above many of the pensions received by retirees on the island.
“Right now my grandmother’s checkbook is 1,070 pesos. How will you buy the oil? “My God, so much sacrifice for this!” lamented a Cuban.
This situation is part of the uncontrolled inflation that is plaguing the country, where essential products see their prices skyrocket without restraint. Meanwhile, wages remain stagnant, eroding the purchasing power of Cubans and worsening the crisis. When it is not the price of oil, it is that of eggs, beans, etc.
Prices in Cuba: oil in the spotlight
From the group’s Facebook, Kinkalla TV, was where the new price in Havana of a liter of oil in Cuba was revealed.
“And the time has come where a retiree’s checkbook is equivalent to a knob of oil,” reads La Kinkalla TV’s Facebook. In this publication you see an image of a self-employed position with several oil knobs, with the price of 1500 pesos.
“I imagine that a retiree cannot pay the new prices for cigarettes, not even to sell them and buy food,” said another.
Exhausted by endless lines, constant blackouts, food shortages and hopelessness, citizens see the possibility of a decent life disappearing. The situation in Cuba is increasingly critical, and the lack of solutions from the authorities only deepens the social unrest.
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