Food Shortages In Cuba

From a great post by Mark Perry of "Carpe Diem". Excerpt:

"Meanwhile, in Cuba, blogger Yoani Sanchez discusses the chronic shortages of one the country’s main food staples – pork – and the main reason for the shortages: the bureaucratic, corrupt state controls much of the pork market, including being the main supplier of a critical ingredient: pig feed. Yoani explains:

The weakest link in the agricultural chain is “food for the pigs,” a real headache for many Cuban peasants. The State remains the leading manufacturer of this product, in part because the private sector doesn’t have the raw materials or the technical capacity to obtain it.
After decades pf accumulated complaints and of underweight animals, Cuba still has not managed to achieve stable high quality nutrition for farm animals. Traveling through the fertile plains that make up the western and central areas of the county, one is surprised by the great amount of uncultivated land. It could be planted with grains and vegetables that would help to increase the mass of the country’s swine. For now, these extensive land abound in weeds.

What, food shortages when the government controls production? And highly desirable fertile, but uncultivated land, overgrown with weeds under communism? Who’d a-thunk it?"