“Esto cada día está peor y vamos pa’ atrás” asegura Fidela Herreras Peredas, ciudadana cubana residente en el reparto “Cuba libre” en Pinar del Río. Reportaje exclusivo para ADN Cuba.
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00:00My name is Fidel Herrera Pareda. I am a Cuban citizen.
00:05I live here in Pinar del Río. I was born and raised here.
00:08I am 64 years old.
00:10Excuse me, I am 67 years old.
00:13I turned 11 in October.
00:15Well, about the blackouts, I'm going to tell you
00:19that we've been with blackouts for more than 5 months.
00:23They put us for an hour,
00:25and sometimes they put us in the middle of the night,
00:27and you can't get up at all because you're lying down.
00:30The children here are drowning in the heat.
00:33This is getting worse every day.
00:35The electricity, they haven't put it on.
00:38We've been without electricity for five whole days.
00:41We don't have gas bulbs to cook.
00:44The coal here is sold wet for 750 pesos,
00:48and that's five.
00:51So sometimes you have to cook with firewood.
00:54You have the eyes that you can't see.
00:57You're cooking with firewood.
00:59There's no food.
01:00The food, the free rice, is worth 200 pesos.
01:03That's the government that sells that.
01:09The rice, the oil, is worth 750 pesos.
01:16There are some that sell it to you for 1,000 pesos,
01:19the cooking oil.
01:22Yes.
01:29The bread?
01:30The bread here comes three days and three nights.
01:33A little piece of bread.
01:35A little piece of bread that a child eats,
01:37and he stays hungry.
01:38A child.
01:39A one-year-old child eats that bread,
01:41and he stays hungry.
01:43This here is getting worse every day,
01:45and we're going backwards.
01:47It's backwards and backwards and backwards.
01:50And they don't do anything.
01:52They don't do anything, and they don't solve anything.
01:55So it's the same trick all their lives.
01:58Have the people been informed about the monitoring of these blackouts?
02:04I don't know, because I can tell you that I'm a traitor,
02:07but I don't see anything.
02:09Because why would you be a traitor
02:11if what they put in you is lies and more lies?
02:13And everything is a lie.
02:14Everything is a lie.
02:16The drugs, Fidelio?
02:17The drugs, what drugs?
02:19There are children who are sick,
02:21and they don't have any medication to take.
02:24No medication.
02:25The child from my house, the grandson,
02:27is sick, he's seven years old.
02:29He doesn't have milk to go to school.
02:31It's been more than 15 days since they haven't gone to school
02:34because they don't have electricity.
02:36So since there's no electricity,
02:38the information they get is that there's no class.
02:41That's not all.
02:43Another thing.
02:44Food doesn't work.
02:46If you go to a hospital and you break your foot,
02:49or a hand,
02:50they tie you up in a strap,
02:52or the foot,
02:53and it's hard for me to rest because there's no plaster,
02:56there's nothing.
02:57There's no duragina to put you in a headache.
03:00It gets worse every day.
03:02People on the 11th of November,
03:05of July,
03:06of July,
03:07they've all died because they're in jail.
03:10And so, you have to come out here,
03:12and they catch you in a cage,
03:14and they put you in jail.
03:16There are two of those,
03:18in jail on the 11th.
03:19A repressive state.
03:20Yes.
03:21A state.
03:22This is more than a repressive state.
03:24This isn't called a repressive state.
03:25This happened because of the repressives.
03:27Because everyone you can catch,
03:30if you give them a stick,
03:31they give you a stick.
03:33They give you a stick,
03:34so they don't just give you one,
03:35they give you a stack.
03:37That man,
03:38whose name is Omar,
03:41Omar was caught inside the house,
03:43they beat him up,
03:44they broke his head,
03:45they broke his ribs,
03:47they hit him in the head.
03:49This is getting worse every day.
03:51What can I say?
03:53So this,
03:54it's not going forward,
03:56but it's going backwards,
03:57and it can go wherever it wants.
03:59There's no food for the kids here.
04:01There's no milk for the kids.
04:03There's nothing for the kids.
04:05There's a government incapacity
04:07to get the people out of the crisis
04:08they're going through.
04:09There's nothing here
04:10to get anyone out.
04:12This is going backwards every day.
04:14It's getting worse.
04:15Thank you very much, ma'am.
04:17This has been for you,
04:18the press correspondent,
04:20Julio Cesar Gongor-Amelio,
04:22and here, Omar Suarez Campos,
04:24for ADN Cuba,
04:25from the city of Pinar del Río.