The Cuban regime has announced that children will not be provided with the allotted milk ration due to shortages on the island. With inflation skyrocketing and government-controlled slave wages that have left the majority of the population living in extreme poverty, parents are left to themselves to find a way to obtain this vital nutrient for their children.
Cuba is struggling to secure enough milk for children, a minister said, in the latest shortage putting strain on a decades-old subsidies scheme created by the late Fidel Castro.
Milk deliveries for children aged 6 months to 2 years had been delayed this month, minister of interior commerce, Betsy Diaz, said late on Thursday, though she promised deliveries would begin shortly in smaller quantities for priority groups.
Children with chronic illness, for example, will receive milk but at half their normal allotment, Diaz said...
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