HAVANA, January 10 (Reinaldo Cosano Alén / www.cubanet.org) - Most of
the Basic Units for Co-operative Production (UBPC) are bankrupt, according to
conclusions drawn by Communist Party officials after recent meetings held in
every province.
A source who would not be named said participants at the meetings went over
the factors affecting results for the co-ops.
In Cienfuegos province, participants blamed "a number of difficulties
that prevent the accomplishment of the fundamental principles on which the UBPC
were constituted, among them, that payment for actual production, as opposed to
by salary, has been extremely slow, and many UBPCs recorded economic loses, both
the UBPC dedicated to sugar cane and those dedicated to other agricultural
pursuits" for the economic disaster.
Officials also pointed to instability in the growth of cane fields and lack
of attention to crops, low productivity, lack of control by the Communist Party,
and towards the end of the meeting, officials brought up the subject of
inadequate attention to the needs of the workers, the real protagonists in the
production of goods.
Participants held administrators responsible for the disaster, and exhorted
them "to have the will to succeed."
A high Party official in Cienfuegos said "The times demand definitive
solutions for the UBPC."
A peasant in the region pointed out that "The definitive solution
consists of changing the regime, so that we can own the land and the crop,
instead of us being the property of an abusive police State."
When the government created the UBPC eight years ago, some believed the
official pronouncement that the co-ops would be the magic wand that would solve
the food crisis. Yet, in spite of abundant resources invested in them, the
present failures show their inability to deliver the expected results.
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