{"id":234151,"date":"2021-02-05T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=234151"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:13:51","slug":"the-reorganizations-prices-ii-with-and-without-ration-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/the-reorganizations-prices-ii-with-and-without-ration-card\/","title":{"rendered":"The reorganization\u2019s prices (II): with and without ration card"},"content":{"rendered":"

One month after the beginning of the <\/span>monetary reorganization<\/span><\/a> in Cuba, many doubts, criteria and dissatisfactions persist in the population. This, despite the fact that since the announcement made on December 10 by the Cuban president, the authorities and the media of the Island have dedicated numerous spaces to inform and explain the measures, changes and rectifications adopted as part of this process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In particular, <\/span>the prices<\/span><\/a> of the different products and services\u2015both state and private, official and informal\u2015have been in the sights of many since the beginning of the reorganization became known, and still remain so today, even though not all of them rose or increased in the same way. Therefore, we have thought it appropriate to offer our readers a look at this controversial issue that directly affects the pockets of Cubans and reflects, like few others, the contrasts of a step that both the government and the specialists considered essential\u2015but at the same time complex\u2015to eliminate existing distortions in the Cuban economy and promote its long-awaited take-off.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a first installment, together with a necessary introduction in this regard, we approached through graphics the prices and rates of electricity, gas, drinking water and sewerage, essential services in contemporary life that, as it is known, in Cuba are managed by the State and are, to a greater or lesser extent, subsidized by it. These services are included\u2015from a rationality approach\u2015in the amount of the basic basket, estimated by the government at 1,528 pesos (CUP) and whose calculation served as the basis for the <\/span>increase in wages and pensions<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

To arrive at this amount, which coincides with the established minimum pension\u2015for those who previously received up to 300 CUP\u2015, \u201ca coherent, integrated and harmonious analysis was made of what a person should consume in goods and services and a rate was set,\u201d <\/span>as explained in mid-December<\/span><\/a> by Minister of Domestic Trade Betsy D\u00edaz Vel\u00e1zquez. However, in the face of criticism and comments from the population, who soon realized that their math did not add up, some prices initially set by the government have undergone adjustments and rectifications\u2014those of electricity among them\u2014and others were maintained \u201cunder study,\u201d according to the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reorganization\u2019s prices (I)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n