Branded canned goods Conchita and malts Hatuey y Buccaneer They are sold in a supermarket in the city of Louisville, Kentucky.
In a video Shared on Facebook on the Las Américas market page, you can see the shelves full of Conchita canned products, from cookies, pasta and guava jam, bars stuffed with this fruit, sauce barbecue, red wine vinegar, grated coconut and others of the same brand.
In other clip Packages of Hatuey and Bucanero malts can be seen in box presentations with six bottles.
However, what the market for the Latino public presents as “Cuban products” have an origin and marketing on their label that distances them from the Cuban government.
Although one could think of a regime strategy to sell its brands in the US when they are scarce in the markets in Cuba, Conchita products, which are also sold at Sedano’s in South Florida, were registered in the United States by Conchita Foods Inc.based in Miami, and is produced in Brazil.
As can be seen on the company’s website, the company belongs to Cuban-Americans descendants of the creator of the Cuban Conchita, Sixto C. Ferro, exiled in Florida since 1964.
For its part, Hatuey malt is produced by the Bacardi company, based in Coral Gables, Florida, and Bucanero malt is registered under the marketer JMa Import & Export LLC, also in the Sunshine State.
Recently, Cubans from Miami were surprised to find soda bottles in Sedano’s Supermarkets blind man orange, lemon and even the famous Tukola, sold in all cases for $1.99 dollars.
However, the Ciego Montero brand that appears on the shelves was registered in the United States, is produced in Colombia to achieve the original flavor with cane sugar, and is legally marketed by the Florida company by Always Food Sales & Consultant Corp., owned by an exiled Cuban-American, oblivious to contacts with Havana.
Last year, Cuban residents in Canada reported Ciego Montero soft drinks, which are so scarce in stores on the island, they were being traded in a Montreal city market.
But the Ciego Montero that is sold in supermarkets and commercial establishments in South Florida is not associated with Nestlé or the Ministry of the Food Industry of Cuba.
