133 tonnes of chicken stolen in major Cuban heist
(news.sky.com)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to world@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 2024 01:21
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from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to world@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 2024 01:21
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Thirty people have been charged after stealing 133 tonnes of chicken and selling it on in Cuba amid economic turmoil and food shortages in the country.
Thieves took the poultry stored in 1,660 boxes from a state facility in the capital Havana and used the money from the sales to buy products including refrigerators, TVs, air conditioners, and laptops.
The chicken would have been distributed to citizens under the communist-run island’s ration book system - introduced more than 60 years ago after Fidel Castro’s revolution - which provides subsidised food and is an integral part of daily Cuban life.
The amount stolen was equivalent to a month’s ration of chicken for a medium-sized province at the current distribution rates, an official for government food distributor COPMAR said.
Cuba imports most of the food and fuel it consumes, but revenues have plunged following COVID, worsened by strict US sanctions and stagnant tourism, which was once a mainstay of the nation’s economy.
The government continues to ration a basic basket of goods including rice, beans, sugar, and proteins, such as pork, chicken, beef and fish.
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Heists for Hunger ©️
Everybody’s got to eat. End sanctions against the Cuban people.
End the sanctions which are just punishing the citizens and not the government but in this case they stole from the poor to sell back to the poor
Looks suspiciously at KFC
CFC
Is that CIA Fried Chicken or Chlorofluorocarbon?
The situation in Cuba is very dire. Despite my dislike for the Cuban government, I hope they throw the book at them. Stealing food meant to be distributed to one's fellow citizens is low.
It sounds like they're taking down the whole corrupt nest and will likely land some bystanders that "knew but didn't say" about the diversion.
What a juicy story. I hope you'll keep us abreast of any developments. These guys are gonna fry!
133 TONS of chicken…
Cuba uses the metric system, 133,000 kilograms of chicken. 293,215 pounds.
On average, a chicken weighs 5.7 pounds.
293,215 / 5.7 = 51,441 chickens.
Check out the big brain on Brett! That’s right, motherf***er!
But how many royals of chicken are they?
(To be read in Samuel L’s voice)
Edit: fixed grammar
*Royale with Chicken
I thought about going with “Royale with chicken” as opposed to “Royale of chicken”, but I went with the second because I thought that the Royale is already intended to be a quarter pounder of beef and it might have seemed beef+chicken instead of a quarter pounder of chicken 😁
Nope, I’ve replaced the cheese with chicken.
Beef with chicken for the man with the wok hat at table two, please!
133 tonnes. 147 tons.
GTA: Cuba has a nice ring to it
Ew. My imagination disallows chicken heisters from being properly equipped.
waiting 25 years to find out the CIA did it to destabilize them further.