Eugenio Martínez, residente en Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, es una persona discapacitada: le falta una pierna y tiene cuatro operaciones. A pesar de su situación, Martínez no recibe ayudas por parte del régimen. Denuncia campesina.
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00:00 Good morning, how are you?
00:02 Eugenio Valdivia Ayala
00:04 Eugenio, you speak a lot.
00:06 From what I'm seeing, you are a limited person physically.
00:08 Yes.
00:09 Show me the situation of your house.
00:11 Well, look, you see, this house was built in 2008.
00:13 In 2008.
00:14 And they didn't give me anything.
00:16 Nothing, they didn't give you anything.
00:17 Nothing. So now, the cyclone has hit it.
00:19 Limited physically.
00:20 Eugenio, show me the situation.
00:22 The house is inside.
00:24 This house, the cyclone hit it.
00:26 So, I broke it over there.
00:28 And now, I'm going to level it up.
00:30 Eugenio, show me the situation.
00:32 Look at the situation you are living.
00:34 You are a limited person physically.
00:36 On the ground floor.
00:38 Eugenio, this is the ground floor.
00:40 Ground floor.
00:42 Look, and with this situation,
00:44 with the blackouts,
00:46 you are cooking with firewood.
00:48 Because, speaking directly, it's not easy.
00:50 I know it's not easy.
00:52 Look at that. Cooking with firewood.
00:54 In the situation you are living,
00:56 it's not easy.
00:58 Look.
01:00 And speaking directly,
01:02 you sleep on that bed?
01:04 No, I sleep on that bed.
01:06 I'm a single man.
01:08 A single man.
01:10 A vulnerable person too.
01:12 Because you are an elderly person.
01:14 You can't build a house if the government doesn't help you.
01:16 Speaking directly.
01:18 And Eugenio, excuse me,
01:20 what kind of worker were you?
01:22 I was a farm worker for 27 years.
01:24 27 years working in the field.
01:26 Agriculture. For the state.
01:28 For the state.
01:30 I was a farmer for 10 years,
01:32 then I made coal for the state,
01:34 but I never retired.
01:36 You never retired.
01:38 For those years you worked,
01:40 you didn't get the job?
01:42 No, I had to work in a place,
01:44 in a company,
01:46 and I couldn't.
01:48 Eugenio, with that physical limitation,
01:50 you couldn't.
01:52 And what do you earn in a day?
01:54 Nothing.
01:56 I'm a social worker.
01:58 Not even a Mexican expert?
02:00 I came here,
02:02 and I was already working,
02:04 so I was like, "Oof!"
02:06 Since I had surgery, I haven't.
02:08 Nothing.
02:10 It's not easy.
02:12 And what other health problems do you have?
02:14 I have four surgeries.
02:16 You are a hospital worker.
02:18 I'm sorry to say that.
02:20 I have a broken foot,
02:22 a broken testicle,
02:24 a pressure from one eye,
02:26 a hand.
02:28 Eugenio, it's not easy.
02:30 You are a vulnerable person,
02:32 a third-age person.
02:34 And I'm sorry to say this,
02:36 but this is like living in a cave.
02:38 A cave.
02:40 A cave.
02:42 And you have a floor with a broken leg.
02:44 Eugenio,
02:46 so many years of work and sacrifice
02:48 so you don't have a retirement.
02:50 So you don't have a retirement.
02:52 That's not conceivable.
02:54 And this marriage was in 2008.
02:56 In 2008, Eugenio.
02:58 I sold the motorcycle I had,
03:00 which was a private car,
03:02 and I built a little house.
03:04 And now Cyclone came and
03:06 he sold it to me.
03:08 And I have three kids.
03:10 I have a problem.
03:12 I have a broken arm, a broken leg.
03:14 Exactly.
03:16 So, in conclusion,
03:18 they haven't given you anything.
03:20 No, they haven't given me anything.
03:22 That's what the authorities have told you.
03:24 The delegate gave me that little car.
03:26 And what else?
03:28 They haven't given you a module.
03:30 A small module and two plates.
03:32 That's fine.
03:34 This is a report
03:36 by Joel Ezea Costa for ADNQ.
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