Socialist Cuba’s Latest ‘Superfood’: Cockroach Milk

A local Communist Party-controlled radio station in Cuba published an article on Monday promoting the consumption of “cockroach milk,” a substance it admitted had a “rancid taste” but could become the new “superfood.”

Cuba, once the wealthiest country in Latin America, has been an impoverished communist dictatorship since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959. It has struggled with intense food shortages in the past five years due to mismanagement under second-in-command “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel, who answers to the Castro family and has repeatedly asserted that his being named president would not in any way change the leadership of the country. Díaz-Canel’s leadership has led to severe shortages of bread, basic meats like chicken and beef, and cooking oil, among other products.

The Communist Party has responded to the shortages with increasingly bizarre nutritional recommendations, including eating rats, crocodiles, ostrich eggs, and banana peels.

The Spain-based Diario de Cuba reported that the article advertising cockroach milk appeared on the web page of Radio Guamá, a local government station in western Pinar del Rio, on Monday. The article had disappeared from the website by Tuesday but can still be accessed through the Internet Archive.- READ MORE