Modern Day Marie Antoinette 90 miles South of Key West:
Wife of Cuba’s fake president opens gastronomic festival in luxury apartheid hotel as starving Cubans scrounge for food
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1672426320_44340.html
Translated excerpt with translator’s comments included:
From our Bureau of Socialist Equity and Social Justice with some assistance from our Bureau of Clueless First Ladies of Latrine America Who Resemble Marie Antoinette
Another intolerable insult to the Cuban people is underway, led by none other than the so-called “First Lady” of Castrogonia, Lis Cuesta.
This latest food festival is being launched during one of the worst food shortages in the history of Cuba, a crisis that is made all the worse by triple-digit inflation. Food is not only scarce, but unaffordable.
Nice move, First Lady. Very imaginative way of reminding the Cuban people that they are all inferior to the oligarchs and tourists who get to eat as much as they want during a severe famine. Hey, Lis, tell us: Have you ever heard of Marie Antoinette? You need to check out her story. Really. Click the link, Lis … and you might learn a thing or two.
Abridged and loosely translated from Diario de Cuba
Cuba Sabe, the international gastronomic workshop organized by the Cuban first lady Lis Cuesta, will have its fourth edition between January 12 and 14, with China as the guest country, and despite the hardships that Cubans go through to get food.
Based at the luxurious five-star Iberostar Grand Packard hotel in Havana, the event will have as its themes the gastronomy of Sancti Spíritus, the imprint of Chinese immigrants on Cuban gastronomic culture and design in gastronomy, the site indicated. specialized Travel Trade Caribbean.
Cuba Sabe is organized by the Paradiso Cultural Tourism Agency, directed by Cuesta and part of the Cuban Ministry of Culture, the Culinary Federation, Sommeliers Association and Cuban Bartenders Association.
It also has the sponsorship of the Ministries of Culture and Tourism, the National Council of Cultural Heritage, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Cuba and the Spanish hotel company Iberostar Hotels & Resorts, which from the beginning offers its luxurious facilities as its headquarters.
The meeting, which Cuban leaders usually attend, starting with Miguel Díaz-Canel, will offer conferences, tastings, specialized workshops, themed lunches, art exhibitions and book presentations.
In addition, it includes night concerts with Cuban groups and gastronomic tours in the days after the event, which can be reserved so that, according to the organizers, “those interested can learn Cuban cuisine ‘in situ’, its ingredients, its origins, its ways of autochthonous production and crops”.
Cuba Sabe derived from Gastrocult, a first workshop organized by Cuesta in 2019 to promote Cuban cuisine, which immediately received government support to become a more ambitious event.
The announcement of the call comes while Cubans face endless queues and slaughterhouses to get the traditional piece of pork to toast at the end of the year dinner, and food shortages in the country, where the prices of what few that there are are triggered, it becomes very difficult to satisfy the basic needs of families.
