{"id":130701,"date":"2024-05-24T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/with-little-to-buy-cubans-abroad-send-home-food-not-money\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T06:00:05","slug":"with-little-to-buy-cubans-abroad-send-home-food-not-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/with-little-to-buy-cubans-abroad-send-home-food-not-money\/","title":{"rendered":"With little to buy, Cubans abroad send home food, not money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130701\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nMaria Paez feels relieved after receiving a package of food items including eggs, ham, and yogurt from her children in Miami \u2014 bought online and shipped to Havana. These days, with a severe economic crisis and food shortages, Cubans abroad increasingly prefer to send care packages to family back home, rather than cash transfers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReceiving these types of products is a relief for us\u201d and, \u201cin terms of spending money, the savings are substantial,\u201d Paez, a 59-year-old mathematics graduate told AFP. \u201cReceiving eggs is very important\u201d because \u201cit is a guaranteed breakfast,\u201d added Paez, who has lived alone with her husband since their two children emigrated to the United States. In total, she received 18 products, a lifeline in Cuba which is facing its worst economic crisis in three decades, with shortages of food, medicine and fuel. After several years of double-digit inflation, a carton of 30 eggs now costs 3,300 pesos ($27,50) on the communist island, where the average salary is 4,800 pesos.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba\u2019s bleak economic circumstances have pushed some five percent of the population to flee in recent years. Online stores offering the delivery of essential products to Cuba have flourished as demand rises. Most are based in the United States \u2014 home to two million Cubans \u2014 but they have also cropped up in Mexico, Canada, and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Every day dozens of delivery vans and private vehicles can be seen on the streets of Cuba distributing packages of food items that are in short supply, or whose prices have skyrocketed since the government authorized private-owned stores in 2021. At one such delivery service in the US city of Hialeah, near Miami, which has a large Cuban population, Luis Manuel Mendez, 59, told AFP he sends food, medicine and school supplies to the two children he left behind when he emigrated a year-and-a-half ago. \u201cThings in Cuba are very expensive,\u201d so \u201cit is much more feasible to buy it here and send it,\u201d said Mendez. His children \u201cdon\u2019t want money, what they want is for me to send them basic necessities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearby, there is a constant stream of people carrying bags to another agency which coordinates the sending of food packages to Cuba. Maribel Ruiz, 62, said she helps out an aunt and cousins back home. \u201cThe problem is that you send the money, but there is nothing to buy in the stores there. You have to send them packages of medicine, food, clothes, everything.\u201d Cuba has been battling sky-high inflation and shortages since the pandemic \u2014 which hit tourism hard \u2014 plus a tightening of US sanctions in 2021, combined with structural weaknesses in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Havana Consulting Group, based in Miami, remittances from the United States to Cuba reached a record $3.7 billion in 2019, becoming the country\u2019s second source of income after the export of medical services, and above tourism. Cuban economist Emilio Morales, who chairs the consultancy, said this figure has since dropped \u201cfrom $2 billion in 2022 to $1,9 billion in 2023.\u201d Morales said emigrants also increasingly prefer \u201cto invest large sums of money in getting their families\u201d out of the country or pay online companies to send packages to their door.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/with-little-to-buy-cubans-abroad-send-home-food-not-money\/article\"> DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/with-little-to-buy-cubans-abroad-send-home-food-not-money\/\">With little to buy, Cubans abroad send home food, not money<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2805,815,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-130701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cuba","tag-food","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}