shortages of food and increase in prices are worsening on the island. Most of what is consumed is imported and there is a lack of foreign currency.

Claims for lack of food added to long blackouts, which affected almost the entire Cuban population in recent weeks. Hundreds of people to demonstrate on March 17 in at least four cities in the country, in the largest protests recorded since the historic anti-government marches on July 11, 2021. The government "tries to preach a morality of egalitarian quality that it cannot sustain," researcher Arturo López says.