Así vive un cubano
Así vive un cubano: en condiciones deplorables. En la miseria total. ¿Saben esto los extranjeros que visitan la isla o piensan que todo es un paraíso?
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00:00 I am Luis Rodríguez, 66 years old.
00:06 I live here in 88, between 45 and 47.
00:11 Number 4509.
00:16 Since 2012, I have had critical situations.
00:23 The only thing that has benefited me is the social welfare that I receive.
00:30 2,600 pesos for me and my brother who is not here at the moment.
00:37 To support us.
00:40 A support that we cannot support because I think that with 1,300 pesos I cannot support myself.
00:48 The social welfare that my brother received is better.
00:53 And with that I have had difficulties like the water.
00:58 Four years and more or maybe more before the pandemic, without water.
01:05 I went everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
01:08 I went to the youth, I went to all the partners.
01:12 First I met with the council of the partners here.
01:17 I was negative, totally negative.
01:20 There was even a racism against my person, I was a black Pochino.
01:25 The mayor knew that, the council head knew it, everyone knew it.
01:36 Even the committee lent itself to give my data to make a false accusation.
01:44 And yet, to attend to the other delegates who commented that they were not good,
01:53 but I prefer them better because at least they gave me a meal.
01:56 Since 2012, they denied me even the basic basket.
02:00 Since 2012.
02:02 What disease do you suffer from?
02:04 I am, I have, I am infected.
02:06 I have two heart attacks, I am asthmatic, chronic, with danger to life.
02:12 I have vastric and alkaline, I have several diseases that all have to do with a complication of health.
02:19 What does your brother suffer from?
02:21 My brother has kidney failure, he has chronic anemia, he is chronic alcoholic.
02:31 And he walks in a wheelchair?
02:35 Yes, we live in a wheelchair, first he walked in a wheelchair that was dragged around the whole council,
02:42 the whole Santa Fe, he seemed a padre de promesa.
02:46 And then the delegate, I have no complaints about her, she is a good revolutionary.
02:54 That is a fruit of the revolution, that delegate took away his food and gave me a meal.
03:03 And the government has not received any help?
03:05 No, no, no.
03:07 When the social welfare, the social welfare, what help does it give?
03:11 I went to Africa to get help, to sign up here in the notebook.
03:16 They made me go through work, they even spoke of my family,
03:25 that is a lack of respect because of life.
03:28 How many people live in the house?
03:30 We live three people.
03:32 And they all live in this condition?
03:36 Yes, yes.
03:38 You can see, this is the situation this man presents.
03:46 I want two sticks and two, and that it be three, two sticks, two sticks.
03:53 So that the government helps you.
03:56 So that there is air, and if that is not enough, he sleeps here in the room.
04:02 The government helps you a little with the structure, that it is not in habitable conditions.
04:08 And in that bed there, who sleeps?
04:10 In this bed I sleep.
04:12 And in this one on the floor?
04:14 And my daughter.
04:16 Very good, very good.
04:18 And in this one my brother sleeps because I can't sleep in the room.
04:21 Come here, family.
04:24 I am a person of the porables, as I live, as all Cubans live on the island.
04:30 Because I live like that too.
04:32 I am part of this scenario in which Cubans live on foot,
04:39 because I am one more Cuban who presents health problems,
04:43 and I live in total misery, as 80% of the Cuban family lives on foot.
04:51 Very good, family.
04:52 Look, once again, you can see the complaint here,
04:59 to the municipal authorities, to the Havana water system, to the sewage system.
05:04 I don't know who has to do with this,
05:06 that by the way, the Havana water office is nearby, right?
05:11 There are not three blocks left.
05:13 Look here how these people have to live, in the rot, in the rot.
05:18 Where they have reported countless times to the regime, to the government, to the identities,
05:26 that have to do with this situation,
05:28 where they have not been given an answer, where they have not come to solve their problem.
05:38 Look here.
05:40 Reporting for ADN Cuba, Pedro Quiala and Carlos Milanés.
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