In the midst of the current transportation crisis, with a shortage of parts and fuel, the Cuban authorities thought that MSMEs would rent buses and state vehicles to move the population, but apparently the experiment has gone badly. Another failure?
According to official media,The initiative to lease state vehicles to private individuals for public transportation, implemented as a measure to stop the rise in prices and the shortage of buses, did not achieve its objective, as the authorities of the eastern province of Las Tunas recently admitted.
Not even with that, the Transportation authorities on the island have been able to stabilize the flow of buses, public transportation in general. And the complaints of the population continue to multiply, as well as the price of all things, since it is the law of the “strongest” for the most part.
Transport leased to MSMEs is a failure: prices do not go down
The measure of leasing state vehicles to private individuals for public transportation had no effect on price control, as recognized by the Las Tunas authorities, nor did it solve the shortage of options to get around. And just like this eastern province, many others are similar.
“It has not gone well for us,” Jaime Chiang, governor of Las Tunas, acknowledged from the ruling party, regarding the transportation leased to MSMEs and they had to recognize the “failure.”
This recognition from the officials is nothing new, although they assumed, when they instituted this measure in 2021, that the situation of public transportation would improve with the leasing of underutilized means of transportation from the state, the reality has been different. Three years later the experiment has not borne fruit and nothing has changed.
“The drivers of the leased buses do not collaborate to mitigate the situation, in the first place because they charge what they want and do with the buses what they consider convenient, to say the least (…) Transportation is the cause of the greatest pain of head for many people like me who walk from here to there every day,” said a Cuban.
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