Federico Hernández Izquierdo, residente en el municipio San Juan y Martínez de Pinar del Río, trabajó para el gobierno en Cuba y fue maestro internacionalista. Ahora está discapacitado y abandonado. Hernández gana 1600 pesos y vive en una casa con piso de tierra. Denuncia campesina.
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00:00 I am Joy Valencia Costa, a member of the Democratic and Independent Cuba.
00:04 I am going to visit a person who is mute and cannot speak.
00:08 That is why I am going to speak on behalf of him and the situation he is living in.
00:11 Look, Piso Tierra, whom you know from nowhere.
00:14 A man who has spent his entire life working for this revolution.
00:24 And look at the conditions he is living in.
00:28 A man who has worked in provincial education.
00:31 His entire life, look at the conditions he is living in.
00:35 Piso Tierra, without any kind of help, they have not given him a module.
00:38 According to people who told me to come here, they have not given him a module, they have not given him anything.
00:43 This is all wet, it is pieces of tobacco boxes.
00:47 Look at what he cooks with, with firewood.
00:49 He cannot even reach coal.
00:52 That is firewood.
00:54 Look, preparing some tomatoes for his reality.
00:57 Look where he lives, they have not given him a mattress, they have not given him anything.
01:00 He is not interested in anyone.
01:02 A man who was, as someone says, an internationalist when he was in Nicaragua.
01:08 They took teachers to Nicaragua.
01:10 Look at the reality he lives in.
01:12 He is deaf and mute, that is why I have not interviewed him, because he cannot speak.
01:16 The reality of the Cuban on foot, after having worked for a lot of years for the revolution.
01:21 Look at the reality he lives in, exposing the reality of the Cuban on foot.
01:27 Piso Tierra, that no one is interested in, no one has come here.
01:30 According to a sister of his, no one has come, they have not given him a mattress, they have not given him anything.
01:36 It is all wet, it is pieces of tobacco boxes.
01:39 Look at the situation he lives in, as someone says,
01:44 a teacher working for the revolution his whole life.
01:51 That is why we reporters have to exist,
01:55 to show the reality that they are doing to the people.
01:59 That is the reality.
02:02 The reality of the Cuban on foot.
02:06 He has worked for a lot of years as a teacher.
02:13 And what is the value of that?
02:16 He has a thousand problems, look, he has a check, and other things.
02:21 What they pay him does not reach 1,600 pesos.
02:29 They made plans for the house and all that, and it was all shit.
02:33 No one has come here ever again.
02:36 Deaf, mute, blind, cooking some bananas to eat.
02:45 Bananas, pieces of pumpkin.
02:50 The reality of the Cuban, he was on a mission abroad and he left.
02:55 And all that teacher's repelage.
02:57 When the Nicaraguan stage, a thousand teachers and a thousand things were taken away.
03:01 Deaf, mute, blind.
03:03 What do they pay him for?
03:05 As they reported, the most famous revolution.
03:08 This is the reality of the people.
03:11 The reality.
03:16 This is a report by Yveletsia Acosta, ADN Cuba.
03:21 (gentle music)
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