In response to the rampant rise in food costs, municipal authorities in Songo-La Maya, located in Santiago de Cuba, have established reference prices for oil and eggs. Invoking Resolutions 345 and 350, officials have set a price ceiling of 2,500 Cuban pesos for a one-liter bottle of oil and 110 pesos per egg. Despite these measures, the authorities clarified that these are not strict price caps but rather "values derived from an evaluation of costs and expenses associated with the marketing of these products." Songo-La Maya joins a string of municipalities across Cuba that have introduced price controls since early August. Economists Pedro Monreal and Elías Amor have criticized the reintroduction of price caps, labeling it as "absurd" and warning that it historically leads to shortages, drives products to the black market, and fails to address underlying inflation issues.