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“It’s just that real communism has never been tried.”
“It’s just that true communism has never been tried”
Cuban famine update: Dictatorship slashes sugar rations by 25%, bread rations by 33%
October 6, 2023 by Carlos Eire
Back in 2018, a California State University student visited the island and reported on the results of the “temporary” 55-year-old rationing system; his student paper offers a glimpse of the future planned for the U.S. peasantry by the world’s elite:
Cuban government-owned supermarkets, otherwise known as bodegas [or as Dr. Jill would have it, bog-A-das] , have been controlled by the Cuban government since Fidel Castro implemented a rations system in 1962. From Castro’s regime to present day, families have been required to bring their state-issued ration book, known as La Libreta, each time they make a trip to the grocery store. Under the Cuban government, the food rationing system provides an allotted amount of food per household depending on age, gender, and health status of the people living in the house.
The last time modern society saw any type of food rationing was Europe’s wartime ration food books during World War II, but ration books continue to be a part of modern day life for many Cuban people even in 2017.
Even before this week’s announcement, rations have been cut several times during the past six years, but here’ what was allowed in 2017:
5 eggs
1 liter of cooking oil
1 pound of spaghetti
3 pounds of refined or white sugar
3 pounds of unrefined or dark sugar
6 pounds of white rice
20 ounces of black beans
2 packets of “mixed coffee”
Daily bread (dinner roll)
Meat and fish products are distributed at separate markets and following a different rationale. Typically, the ration is about 2 pounds of chicken per person, per month.
“It gives us only about 10 days’ worth of food for the whole month,” Gilberto Alfonso said referring to the current rations the government has set in place for its people.
“It’s not enough for any of us,” [Juan] Delgado … as he discusses the current rations provided by the Cuban Government, “no one can live off of just this.”
Sadly, and presumably because he feard being ostracized by his collegiate peers, the author offers this concluding woke “takeaway”:
Undoubtedly, Cuba’s la libreta food rationing system may come as a huge culture shock to Americans. So many of us are accommodated to this 24-hour access, 1-hour express delivery, order-ahead kind of lifestyle. Unplugging from these deep-rooted comforts gave me a better sense of my socioeconomic privilege. Although the lived reality of some people who are underprivileged is unfathomable, researching the rationing system on a person-to-person level is intimate, difficult, and ultimately humbling. Many Cuban people are still happy and make everything work despite their perceived hardships.
For someone coming from a capitalist economy, it can be quite easy to see misfortune in broken down buildings, people in tattered clothing, and mandatory food rations. In looking further, and with an altered perspective, it is apparent that these buildings that have lived through a colorful history, people who smile no matter what kind of clothes are put on their backs, and aid from the government that doesn’t discriminate against income.
