The Cuban private sector is ahead of the government by rejecting payments to the JCC

The most desired bills from a few years ago in Cuba are now rejected. The private sector closed the door on the convertible peso a week before January 1, the date on which the government decreed the beginning of monetary unification. The funeral of this coin takes place without pain or glory, only with some posters that are repeated in private business: “We do not accept CUC”.

although chavito will continue to circulate on the island for another six months, until June 30, private workers prefer to spend most of their operations in peso, for fear of devaluations, long queues in front of banks to exchange money and last minute regulations that the ruling party is out of its sleeve. “It’s better to be careful, because everything seems very improvised and it’s better not to be scared,” admits a seller of bread and biscuits near Boyeros Street in Plaza.

“She already served me ice cream and when I went to pay at the CUC she told me she couldn’t accept it,” laments a customer who was literally left with his mouth watering in front of a private ice cream counter next to Cuba Street in Old Havana. “This is extremism, because they still have a few days to change the convertible peso,” lamented the frustrated user. “All I’m doing with this is losing money.”

“I came to exchange 200 CUC in the national currency, I called at 5:30 in the morning and I still could not enter because there are problems with the connection to the bank”

The huge lines in front of banks on Monday seem to agree with independent traders. “I came to exchange 200 CUC in the national currency, I called at 5:30 in the morning and I still could not enter because there are problems with the connection in the bank”, a private carrier looking for low value bills in the bank located in the basement of the Ministry transport.

“After all, I will not accept anyone chavito moreover, it is no longer enough to put the sign in the car that you can only pay in the national currency, now I am going to put some stickers on the windows, so that before riding I know that I do not accept CUC “, adds the botero”. If I have to come in front of the bank early every week to be able to change, with me it doesn’t matter to collect the coin in the CUC that is on the street, let the Central Bank do that. “

The most cautious and well-positioned in the private sector are already implementing other solutions. “Our letter is in several currencies: Cuban pesos, convertible pesos, dollars and euros, you can pay in any of the four”, repeats an elegant employee who, apart from a palate on San Ignacio Street, convinced several tourists who eat on the spot. “You can pay the same in cash or by credit card, we also accept pounds.”

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