Debts are like deceptive moves. A year ago, money was owed to a farmer in my town for the sale of several quintals of corn to the State. Rice, beans, milk, and beef are also part of the traditional unpaid debts to that dedicated and reliable Guajiro Term used in Cuba for a person who lives and works in the countryside or comes from a rural area. It’s often translated as “peasant,” “farmer,” or “country person”.
It is not the first time that Trabajadores has published a commentary on the subject. The large amount of debt is not in any bank vault, nor in projections for the municipality to stop being a passive link and become the protagonist of its own development.
When attempts are made to promote local transformations, the chain that violates the payment system continues to grow, representing a serious economic problem for the creditor (the one owed money), while the debtor (the one obliged to pay) presents a false solvency that allows them to operate economically with ease.
In the Ciro Redondo municipality of Ciego de Ávila, for example, debt to six entities exceeded 22 million pesos, and the average owed to just four producers reached 5,325,000.
The most affected by these unpaid debts are the credit and service cooperatives Nguyen Van Troi, Felipe Navarro, and José Luis Tasende. The biggest delinquent in paying what it owes is the entity known as the municipal slaughterhouse of Morón.
This mania of debtors also includes the medium-sized private company Carnes D’Tres, a National Vanguard collective, which made sales two years ago to state companies that have not honored their payment commitments.
Of course, if this time of crisis is not the right one to achieve municipal autonomy, at least some links should be removed from the deceptive chain of debts.
The positive side of this situation is that producers show more than dissatisfaction at repeatedly facing the same problem, but they do not tire of clearing marabú, plowing, sowing, and making the land yield.
