La escasez de cigarros en Cuba ha alcanzado niveles críticos. Según este reportaje de ADN Cuba, una caja de cigarros puede costar entre 400 y 500 pesos en el mercado informal, mientras que el Estado no garantiza su venta.
Ante esta situación, algunos fumadores recurren a recoger cabos en las calles para poder fumar. Sin embargo, entre los ciudadanos entrevistados, hay quienes opinan que la prioridad no debería ser el tabaco, sino algo más esencial: la comida.
¿Qué opina usted?
Ante esta situación, algunos fumadores recurren a recoger cabos en las calles para poder fumar. Sin embargo, entre los ciudadanos entrevistados, hay quienes opinan que la prioridad no debería ser el tabaco, sino algo más esencial: la comida.
¿Qué opina usted?
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00:00There is a critical situation with cigars, the scarcity of cigars again
00:05and the huge scarcity of cigars of 400 to 500 pesos
00:08in relation to other times. What can you say about that?
00:12Well, the production of cigars seems to have been reduced
00:17for what is normal to the population at modicum prices
00:22but they are all over the market at 400 to 500 pesos
00:26So how can people afford it at that price?
00:29And then, at the normal price of the state,
00:34which used to be 17.50, now it has gone up to 40 or 50 pesos,
00:38now it doesn't exist. So it doesn't correspond.
00:42Where is all that raw material coming from?
00:45How many smokers are there in your house?
00:48In my house there are three smokers.
00:50And how are you solving the problem of 400 pesos for three?
00:54That's 1,200. Do you have a good income?
00:57No, what income? I don't know how to be smart, but well,
01:00you know, the vice is bad.
01:02And they do anything to guarantee that
01:06against other things that are more necessary.
01:10How much does a smoker in this country need to maintain the vice?
01:16400 for a box of cigars, take it out for 30.
01:20Do you have to smoke a box of cigars every day?
01:22Well, I tell you, a normal smoker.
01:24Do you smoke a box of cigars every day?
01:26Once and even more times.
01:28You have to invent to get that.
01:30Yes, that's right. Invent.
01:32I smoke twice a day.
01:34Well, right now the cigars cost me 20 pesos
01:40and they are up to 30 pesos.
01:42It's very expensive, it's sold.
01:44One cigar for 30 pesos?
01:46Right now, at the moment.
01:48This group that we are here in Cuba
01:52cost me 2.20.
01:545.20 pesos.
01:56And it's 500 pesos too.
01:58That's a part of the response.
02:00That's a part of the response.
02:02We, being smokers and workers.
02:07But there was also a situation.
02:09There was that.
02:11I don't know, let the government help us.
02:15Let them see that we are
02:17human beings to survive.
02:19I don't have 500 pesos every day
02:21to pay for a box of cigars.
02:23I do a lot of bribery.
02:25I pick up cabos from the street.
02:27To survive.
02:29To be able to smoke.
02:31You pick up cabos from the street
02:33to be able to smoke?
02:35To be able to smoke.
02:37It's a hard question.
02:39It's hard.
02:41But well, what can I say?
02:43We were born in Cuba.
02:45And the cigars?
02:47500 pesos have been lost.
02:49A box of cigars.
02:53500 pesos and
02:55cigars have been lost.
02:57Cigars are the easiest thing to do here.
03:01I don't smoke, I don't care.
03:05I'll tell you one thing.
03:07Cubans are like the Gorichas.
03:09Cubans are like the Cubans.
03:11Tobacco, rum.
03:13We are like the Gorichas.
03:15Rum, tobacco,
03:17food and parties.
03:19In a place where you are
03:21a tobacco producer,
03:23how are you going to have cigars?
03:25You don't smoke, you don't smoke.
03:27And that's not true.
03:29Well, guys, at least I,
03:31Aroldo, come to Explore This.
03:33I don't care.
03:35If they put it or take it away,
03:37they put more food for the population.
03:39Okay?
03:41I don't smoke.
03:43You don't smoke either?
03:45No.
03:49I don't care.
03:51Judges are judges.
03:53I'm not a producer.