The Cuban government tells citizens that they are starving: Eat ostriches, mouse crocodiles

It all started when Commander Guilermo Garcia Frias, 91, former fighting friend of leader Fidel Castro, recommended the ostrich as an animal to be eaten in Cuban diet.

In fact, he said this on state television, that the ostrich could produce “more than a cow”, making many people mock him in social media.

The banana mouse [the tongue of Periscopi translator does not know the word in Albanian] is a species that can easily be found on the Caribbean coast

He made this proposal as director of the state-owned company of Flora and Fauna, which grows ostriches and experimentes with other farmers' ideas in trying to solve one of the biggest cocktails in the Cuban socialist economy: cutting basic foods, such as meat, milk and eggs, translated by the BBC, Periscope.

Commander-in-law, who appeared in his green and olive uniform, also proposed that Cubans add two other species to their menu crocodile and confusion, otherwise known as the banana plant.

This is the ostrich. But can this seemingly surprised animal help avert the famine crisis in Cuba? Hardly.

There have been so many gossiping with anger, over what many Cubans believe is the chronic inability of their leaders to lead a stable economy whose resources had once become the world's largest sugar producer.

For example, instead of the well-known government slogan “in any neighborhood revolution” has returned to “for each neighborhood, an ostrich”. /Periscope