He Cuban Central Bank (BCC) denies that ATMs dispense single-sided printed billsaccording to a publication shared on networks.
The entity in its official profile of Facebook described as “fake news” the complaints made on social networks and independent media about bills of the denominations of 100 and 1000 CUP with an error in their printing or false.
“Until now, no clients with this situation have been received at bank branches,” the BCC assured in the aforementioned network.
He also said that “in the case of banknotes that are dispensed by ATMs and are difficult to print, you can go to the nearest bank branch.”
Likewise, he suggested to the population “follow our official sites and channels so that they are kept informed.”
“I ask: is the fact that these counterfeit bills have not been received in the bank branches proof that they do not exist? I know of cases of people who have received counterfeit bills and do not report them,” said a user in the comments of the publication.
Another Internet user commented that what the BCC “should be is to guarantee cash at ATMs, because it is hell to find money. I cannot get the payment for the month of work in cash, because there is none”.
In the last week, several Cubans denounced on social networks that the island’s ATMs began to deliver bills printed on one side only, supposedly due to lack of ink.
The images of the “new banknotes” circulated on the networks and although at that time there was no official statement on the matter, a professor said in a publication in Facebook from the influencer Edmundo Dantés who also paid him at his school with bills that have one side blank.
“And then unexpectedly the ATMs start giving you invisible money like the achievements of the Revolution,” Dantés said in his post.
For his part, Felix Yasser Castillo Pelayo considered that the State “robs you even at the ATM” while showing a 100-peso bill with a blank part.
Given the disbelief of several users of the social network, a Cuban from Santiago de Cuba said that it has happened in that city and there are people who have taken up to 10 papers with the media’s metallic seal only.
Others said that these banknotes with errors could have numismatic value: Antonio Planas Ampudia said that “Both in the numismatic sector in Cuba and outside of it in other countries they tend to collect Cuban banknotes and coins from the colony, republic and present, and have a value according to the buyer… That ticket has a good error, and there are those who collect errors or series, it is according to taste…”, he explained.
The crisis in Cuba is so widespread that it affects almost all sectors, including one as sensitive as the banking sector. For several months, Cubans have complained that the country’s ATMs wake up without cash, but they never imagined that there would be no ink for the bills either.
