The problems of the shortage of flour on the island of Cuba have been going on for some months and the consequences they have come to religion. It is now that the Catholic Church has announced it this Wednesday they will not be able to produce more hosts for all the dioceses of the country.
The Catholic Religious Congregation of Discalced Carmelites It was he who published the communiqué on a situation that will force the faithful not to be able to celebrate the Eucharistic rite at the end of each mass.
“We communicate it to all the dioceses there are no more hosts for sale. We worked with the little flour left and what was in reserve has now come to an end “, wrote the Discalced Carmelite nuns on their social networks.
The congregation hoped to be able to “resume work” shortly and have enough hosts to “distribute to all the dioceses” of the country. Although the nuns did not explain how they would reach it.
The Catholic religion – including its syncretic versions – it is the majority in Cubaalthough its practice was limited after the triumph of the revolution in 1959. The limitations have been relaxed over the decades.
According to the documentary One million guests, since 2016 15 cloistered nuns from the Convent of the Carmelitas Descalzas in Havana have been making hosts for all the dioceses of Cuba since the 1960s.
The Order of the Discalced Carmelites maintains its monastery in Vedado. They are cloistered nuns, vlive in silence, solitude and austerity. They make the hosts that are consecrated in the Eucharist all over the island.
Crisis and essential food shortages
Flour supply problems have been common in Cuba for several months. they don’t have a regular supply and some private establishments are full days without selling the bread. This creates long queues as well a spike in price.
“The situation of the flour supply in the market is critical. Why? Because there is currently no stable funding at the national level for the purchase of wheat,” the technical director of the Cuban milling company told the Cubadebate website. , Yanet Lomba Estupinan.
With the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine, the price of a ton of this grain has risen to more than $ 650 on the international market, so now a ship of grain costs between $ 14 and $ 16 million and Cuba has need three or four shipments of wheat each month to ensure domestic flour demand.
The scarcity of goods, from food to fuel and medicineit is one of the most relevant and problematic aspects of the multiform crisis that Cuba has been going through for two years.
The situation is a combination of the consequences of the pandemic, the tightening of US sanctions and errors in national economic and monetary policy.
With information from EFE
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Source: Clarin
