Chicken shortage in Cuba

[Drop Dead Fred]

This CNN video is from 2019. It was filmed in Cuba. It shows a large number of people waiting in line, for many hours, all based on the hope that there might, maybe, possibly be one chicken available for them when they finally get to the front of the line. Maybe they’ll get a chicken that day. Maybe not.

Even if they do manage to get a chicken after waiting in line for many hours, the opportunity cost of waiting in line for such a long amount of time is enormous. Imagine all of the things that all of those people could be doing with all of that time if they were living in a country that wasn’t Cuba.

Chickens are self replicating. A hen lays approximately 5 eggs per week.

Therefore, the communists who control Cuba would have to be especially incompetent to create a shortage of chickens.

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[AMart]

This CNN video is from 2019. It was filmed in Cuba. It shows a large number of people waiting in line, for many hours, all based on the hope that there might, maybe, possibly be one chicken available for them when they finally get to the front of the line. Maybe they’ll get a chicken that day. Maybe not.

Even if they do manage to get a chicken after waiting in line for many hours, the opportunity cost of waiting in line for such a long amount of time is enormous. Imagine all of the things that all of those people could be doing with all of that time if they were living in a country that wasn’t Cuba.

Chickens are self replicating. A hen lays approximately 5 eggs per week.

Therefore, the communists who control Cuba would have to be especially incompetent to create a shortage of chickens.

Skip to 3:09

Commercial farming is generally obsolete and non existent in Cuba. A farmer, ag operator can't make a profit there. The government imports about 80% of the food that people consume there.

 

[gipper]

No doubt the CIA had something to do with it.