Cuba's economic crisis worsened this Friday with the extraordinary increase in fuel prices. The increase is part of the very orthodox adjustment of the economy that the communist regime defends as an inevitable cost.
The measure was originally scheduled for February 1, but a cyberattack on the digital payments system of a state company delayed its entry into force for a month. The adjustment plan contemplates a new devaluation of the peso and the progressive end of universal subsidies for products to move to a system of aid for people considered vulnerable.