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Recession hits Cuba's smallest room

Cuba is apparently running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year.

The state-run company that manufactures the island’s supply has warned that the economic crisis and a series of devastating hurricanes has left it unable to guarantee it will be able to produce or import sufficient supplies again until the end of the year.

“The corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper,” said a spokesman for the state conglomerate Cimex. The shipment will enable the state-run company “to supply this demand that today is presenting problems”, he added.

Cuba both imports lavatory paper and produces its own, but does not currently have enough raw materials to make it, he said.

While the public in Cuba may have to struggle for the next few months, hotels in the country will be importing their own supplies.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .