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It is complex to discuss the issue of exports in the media, because it is not understood that in order to have one, one must invest and sell. Any economy, of any country on planet EARTH, needs to acquire products that it does not have, whether due to climate or latitude, if they are agricultural because “they are not available”; or for the possession of natural wealth, and that includes oil, which has caused so many wars at a high cost for all of humanity.
But it is very difficult to explain it to Cubans, who do not have oil (natural oil is not even enough for a municipality, to use a metaphor) or wheat, just to mention and illustrate.
However, the province of Cienfuegos has potential, industrially and in many branches of the economy, resources that, well exploited, in the best sense of semantics, could increase the necessary liquidity.
I do not want to mention the figures in my comment, because I believe “in my own words” that those who read us, listen to or see the communicators, need not to be overwhelmed by the numbers _because the page holds up…_, and yes in change to understand the phenomenon of the urgent need that Cuba, and Cienfuegos in particular, has to contribute to that common fund of money, from which it is taken to buy raw materials, acquire medicines, bread, oil and food for the cattle and pig masses. , just to cite lines that define everyday life today, and in what way.
However, we could comment on those potentialities to which I was referring, and that this territory of central-southern Cuba boasts, bathed by the sea, with one of the best bays on the Big Island, one of stock, fertile land with mountains, and a lot to give and receive.
Sugar and tobacco cannot be missing from the list, as Don Fernando Ortiz, Cuban intellectual, essentially an anthropologist from Sociology and almost discoverer of Cuba through his studies, outlined it in his essay Cuban Counterpoint of Tobacco and Sugar. Work in which he signified, at the early date of 1940 when it was published, the cultural and ECONOMIC importance of having these lines for ourselves and the world.
I write the term “ECONOMIC” in capital letters, because it is like a shout. The list is followed by: Guamuhaya coffee, rum, bee honey and its derivatives, seafood (like seafaring land at last), charcoal (made with marabou, which is plentiful in our lands), cement, among others. which I leave to your choice so as not to make this comment that I share with you, the readers, endless.
We could include the services, because if there is something that La Perla boasts about – not the one in Hormuz, precisely the one that Rubén Darío illustrates to us in “Sonatina” – it is the human capital that shines here and is valuable in the condition of an industrial territory with French roots. Among those we could mention, digital creators, software creators, technical advice, university professors, musicians, visual artists, poets, and even… dancers.
I play with words, as metaphors, because the pressing economic shortage that we are experiencing requires us to expel stress, take refuge in Literature and art, because although man does not live on bread alone, today food dictates the pattern of the immediate and everyday.
And it is true, it is difficult, very difficult, to understand that difficult items are exported, but I swear that it will not be by repeating ad nauseam that the habanero chili pepper is our lifeline, because what I am, I don’t even want to mention it, even when it truly contributes to the economy as those who harvest and export it emphasize.
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