| 02/01/2021 – 12:35 PM (GMT-4)
The humorist Ulises Toirac irony this Saturday his social networks flooded due to the lack of cigarettes in stores, which appears to be ‘a wonderful public health plan’.
The interpreter of the popular character Chivichana said his skin is ‘bushy’ to think about ‘how many sacrifices the Cuban economy makes’.
“What a wonderful public health plan! Zero cigarettes for sale in the capital! We want a healthy population!” Toirac wrote on his Facebook account, which has become a space for reflections and questions about the reality that Cubans live on it. Island.
“I have the urge to consider how many sacrifices the economy makes to deprive itself of that income, including the famous taxes on cigarettes and beverages (which exist in all countries and are applied to these products to discourage consumption)! emotion! Oh, how happy! ”added the comedian.
Your post has generated hundreds of responses. While some preferred to follow the line of humor and have fun with the publication, others joined the criticism, not only because of the shortage, but also because of the new awards that started in Cuba on January 1 that predict a 2021 full of shortcomings and sorrow. for Cubans.
“Now you remember when they told you in Miami ‘stay, stay'”, “Perfect, I have faith in pissed off and anxious smokers … I think with this measure if communism gets screwed up”, “In Camagüey is neither “,” And wait until February, that inflation won’t make you live off the story, “” Compay, it hurt me to know that a box of condoms is 40 CUP, “are some of the comments in the publication from Toirac.
The shortage of cigars in many Cuban shops is already a common problem, especially for smokers of brands such as H. Upmann, which is already quite difficult to find in some places in Havana.
A Facebook user drew a message about this that the Cuban television broadcast on Saturday morning, showing images with many boxes of cigarettes and beef from H. Upmann.
“I imagine the ICRT has used its file as a visual aid, as the absence of this brand and others is well known to smokers.”
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