¿Por qué quiero vender mi riñón?

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¿Por qué quiero vender mi riñón? Una  madre cubana identificada como Marelis asegura que vendería su riñón para comprar una casa para su familia y explica por qué ha tomado esta decisión.

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00:00 I'm Marei, I'm the girl who sold her kidney or changed it for a house.

00:06 I posted it on several Facebook groups.

00:09 Let me explain this quickly.

00:12 I posted it because I'm tired, because they haven't given me a concrete answer

00:20 on how long it will take, when, how they will do it,

00:23 to give us the house that they told us they were going to give us.

00:28 And that every time I go to the government, to housing, to the shelter, to social work,

00:34 to the council of ministers, everywhere, it's just a constant fight, another constant fight.

00:39 This place where I'm living is full of rats, full of cockroaches.

00:43 There are holes with... that have feces, thank God this hole doesn't have it.

00:48 Ehh, cockroaches, bugs, whatever you can imagine.

00:51 These are the mounds, in the port there are usually almost always rats.

00:54 So I couldn't take it anymore.

00:58 Many people think it was a state of despair, but I tell you that if someone really shows up

01:04 and can be donated in exchange for money or a house, I would do it.

01:10 I would do it for my children, and I know that many women would also be willing to do it.

01:16 Have you received an exact answer from the government on how long you will be here in this place?

01:22 No, they haven't answered us because they say that every day the cases increase,

01:27 and I'm not the only woman with three children,

01:31 I'm not the only person who is damaged in Havana.

01:34 Imagine, this part of here is falling apart completely,

01:38 every day there are landslides, and every day women continue to give birth.

01:42 And then they just tell you no.

01:46 There are many people who are in worse conditions than you,

01:49 and you have to wait, you just have to wait.

01:52 I went to the shelter when I was pregnant with the mercy of humans.

01:57 That's what you have to do.

01:59 So the shelter suggested that you go to social media to ask for help,

02:05 to ask for help so that someone can take care of you

02:09 and can help you solve the situation you are presenting with your children.

02:13 Well, two years ago when I was pregnant and went to the shelter, that's what they told me.

02:18 There were many cases, the same and worse, even similar to mine,

02:22 and what I could do was turn to the mercy of humans because there was no shelter in any place.

02:27 And well, today I'm here in this shelter, and thank God I have a roof.

02:32 And it was because I had to go to the square,

02:35 because I had to go and stand there with my children,

02:39 and after a few attempts, I was arrested twice,

02:44 and they took me to Zapati C, and once I was pregnant,

02:48 because I slept there the second time with the girls,

02:50 what they did was take me to maternity line in Vergada,

02:53 and from maternity line they brought me here.

02:56 That's what happened, and that was the solution they gave to my problem.

03:02 So when you go, this is the answer they give you.

03:05 They just don't know how long you're going to be here, or how long you can be here.

03:10 They also told me that as soon as you leave, they're going to think about me, they're going to think about my child.

03:16 Lies. There are thousands of constructions that are being built here, in other places,

03:21 and when you really go to complain, to ask, to do anything,

03:28 they tell you that there are people who are before you, in worse conditions than you,

03:32 and that supposed help that all mothers are given with three children, that's a lie.

03:36 That supposed priority that all mothers are given with three children, or more than three children,

03:40 that there are many who are going through the same, even worse, work than mine, is a lie.

03:46 Everything is a lie and everything is a deception.

03:49 Everything is a scam, and everything is a benefit for the people who expose themselves in the institutions

03:54 to give answers to the people, and they don't give them quick answers, with appointments or direct ones.

03:59 Everything is a manipulation.

04:00 No, another thing, they give me an economic aid of three thousand pesos.

04:04 Of three thousand pesos they give me an economic aid for my children.

04:08 I don't work, I was studying, I finished my high school,

04:13 thank God I have my 12th grade, and I'm trying, if God allows, to start studying nutrition.

04:20 And then, that's the economic aid they give me.

04:24 They constantly threaten me with taking it away from me,

04:27 if I don't continue studying or my husband doesn't start working.

04:34 I'll explain something else to you.

04:36 My husband is the one who looks for things for this house.

04:40 Currently, in a job that you work for the state, they pay you from two thousand to three thousand and a bit of pesos.

04:46 It's not enough for you at all.

04:49 In a package of chicken, you lose your salary.

04:51 In a bag of milk, you lose your salary.

04:54 In the streets, you're trying to solve more problems than working day by day.

04:59 So, constantly, it's happening.

05:03 Have you already acquired the milk from the children who are given here at this base?

05:06 No, we haven't been able to get the milk from Day One yet.

05:09 The children are drinking milk, but it's not from Day One, because it hasn't arrived yet.

05:14 We're already at six, and the milk from Day One is still not there.

05:17 The children, at least, I don't know about other municipalities,

05:20 but the children here in Havana, the milk hasn't arrived yet.

05:23 The family already has cockroaches here.

05:26 Look how the cockroaches come to invade the house.

05:30 You can see, family, that the house is full of cockroaches.

05:34 You can see the living conditions that the roof has.

05:36 Does the roof get wet?

05:37 Yes, of course.

05:38 And all that you see there, all that part there, are electricity cables.

05:42 There have been electric fires here because of the changes?

05:45 I couldn't tell you, because I've been here for two years.

05:48 Look, family.

05:49 Everything has cockroaches.

05:51 We have things inside, the things that the children, if you can see.

05:56 Yes, I can see that everything is packed, nailed.

05:59 Nailed and wrapped.

06:00 And we have it inside a trunk, but I can show you this.

06:03 Do you have sick children?

06:05 Some of your children are sick?

06:07 Yes, let's see, one of the girls doesn't have an iron,

06:10 and the other has a small malformation in her heart.

06:13 And even so, they don't prioritize you.

06:15 I'm going to show you this, so you can see.

06:17 Where one puts the clothes, they put it wherever they want.

06:20 Look, family.

06:21 So you can see, this is here.

06:23 Look, family.

06:25 Look.

06:26 Look at the cockroaches, family.

06:28 This is shaken practically every day.

06:31 And if you move all this,

06:33 and if you take out the clothes...

06:34 No organization or institute comes to fumigate the cockroaches or rats.

06:38 Many times they come to fumigate,

06:41 but it is the fumigation that brings what makes you take out the cockroaches the most.

06:44 That doesn't eliminate them, what makes you take them out the most.

06:47 Also, this is a wall, the plaster, it calls all that.

06:51 And the rats eat the plaster and put it inside you.

06:55 You see the situation that has led the girl to want to sell her kidney in exchange for a house,

07:02 or someone who provides her with the conditions of human life,

07:07 not infrahuman, not conditions of life that are really obsolete.

07:12 There is no bathroom, gentlemen.

07:13 That's another thing.

07:14 There is no bathroom here.

07:15 Here we have to bathe in a pool and poop in Cuba and throw it into the bay.

07:19 We don't have a bathroom because the bathrooms that the government has assigned us are clogged,

07:24 full of rats, full of worms, cockroaches, shit, intima, whatever.

07:28 We have been here for two years and we have not been able to use a bathroom.

07:31 Reporting for ADN Cuba, Carlos Milané, Curiosidad Algonquin.

07:36 CURIOSIDAD ALGONQUIN

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