It’s Always the Weakest Link in the Chain that Breaks

It's Always the Weakest Link in the Chain that Breaks / Juan Juan Almeida

Posted on March 17, 2014



According to the newspaper Granma, five directors of state-owned chains

of shops have been suspended from their posts, and five others have been

disciplined because of illegalities in the sale of cooking tools to

customers and distorting the credit policy implemented by the Cuban

government.



The disciplinary measures implemented by the Minister of Internal

Commerce, Mary Blanca Ortega Barredo, were applied to executives of the

CIMEX corporation, the TRD Caribe chain and the Union of Business and

Cookery of Havana. Up to that point, everything's fine. But I would like

to know who punished the person behind the ridiculous national

energising campaign, which obliged many Cubans to buy Chinese

refrigerators which don't refrigerate, electric saucepans which don't

cook, and hotplates which never worked. These people are now up to their

eyes in debt. That is what, in Cuba, and in China, is called getting

swindled.



Translated by GH



15 March 2014



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