Shock in Damascus , Syria from an iron cage to organize bread lines
Governmental bakeries in Damascus resorted to setting up iron mesh cages to organize the queue for bread, at a time when the director of Damascus bakeries refused to comment on the picture that angered the Syrians. The local "Al-Madina Radio" reported that the director of Damascus bakeries, Nael Asmander, refused to comment on Health
The local "Al-Madina Radio" reported that the director of Damascus bakeries, Nael Asmander, refused to comment on the validity of the image of the cages, and said only that this method is for organizing the role and separating men, women and the military, and also pointed out that "the culture of the role does not exist in our country." In devising a method of cages to organize the role of news, during the search for a solution to the overcrowding on the ovens in light of a stifling crisis in the availability of bread.
In a miserable attempt to solve the bread crisis that intensified last September, the Ministry of Internal Trade imposed a policy of rationing the distribution of bread, as it determined the per capita quota per day to 3 loaves, by allocating a bundle (7 loaves weighing about 800 grams) to a family of two people. And two ties for a family of 4 people. It is received via a "smart card" according to the chip system. Bakeries were also prohibited from selling outside the "smart card", except for 5 percent of sales going to special cases that do not have a card. As university students and residents outside their governorates or others, according to tables of names, national number and phone number.
Two days ago, Prime Minister Hussein Arnous tried to "reassure" the Syrians by saying that the subsidized bread remains "a red line that will not be touched." Except for simple limits. The website of the Syrian newspaper, Al-Watan, stated that Arnous said that the wheat bought by Damascus was sufficient to produce bread for one and a half months only.
The pro-government website quoted Arnous as saying in a meeting with trade unions yesterday: “During the current year, 690 thousand tons of wheat were purchased; Of these, 300 thousand tons are in Hasakah, in northeastern Syria, without specifying whether the rest is also purchased locally. During the years of war, Syria transformed from a country that achieved self-sufficiency in wheat production to an importing country, where wheat production declined from about 4 million tons. To less than 1.5 million tons in 2019 throughout Syria, the majority of it is concentrated in the eastern regions outside the control of the regime.
The Syrian government, which last year signed a contract to import one million and 200 thousand tons of wheat from Russia, this year seems unable to do so, given the tightening of US economic sanctions, and the Autonomous Administration has refrained from selling wheat to Damascus. It is reported that more than 9 million Syrian citizens live. Below the poverty line threatened by food insecurity; According to the "World Food Program", as a result of the lack of bread and the high prices of foodstuffs in Syria, a bundle of bread that is sold at the subsidized price of 50 pounds has reached 1000 pounds on the black market, while the price of a tourist bread bundle in the market has jumped from 500 to 1500 pounds During the last month.
The shock spread among the regime loyalists in the street and on social media, from the government's decision to raise the price of a liter of "premium subsidized" gasoline. Premium subsidized gasoline for the consumer via the "smart card" ranges from 250 to 450 Syrian pounds, and unsupported from 450 to 650 Syrian pounds.
The government-controlled areas have been witnessing for years a severe fuel crisis and long hours of electricity rationing, which have recently worsened significantly, due to the lack of fuel and gas needed to operate the power plants; Which prompted it to take a series of austerity measures.
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