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Cuban Government Scrambling to Deal with Outrage About Country’s Economic Crisis
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Cuban government scrambling to deal with outrage about country’s economic crisis
Cuba doesn’t have any beggars, according to the country’s minister of labour, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera. In a speech to the national assembly on July 15, she denied the existence of destitution in the communist country, claiming the problem was actually people “disguised as beggars”. Her words were greeted by public outcry on social media. They also prompted a swift rebuke from her peers and the president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who said leadership …
William Abel shows the contents of a plastic bag that he has just found in a trash can in a district of Havana that will serve him a meal: a little rice with vegetables and a chicken bone already eaten. He already delights dozens of flies.
Havana. William Abel shows the contents of a plastic bag that he has just found in a garbage container in Havana and that will be his food: a little rice with vegetables and a gnawed bone of chicken. Dozens of flies also dispute that food.This 62-year-old Cuban sleeps on the street since the collapse of his house in the outskirts of the capital. "Food is the hardest thing. I've been looking in the trash for two years for something to eat," he to…
HAVANA – “We have seen people who appear to be beggars, but when you look at their hands, when you look at the clothes that these people wear, they are disguised as beggars, they are not beggars. In Cuba there are no beggars,” said the then Cuban Minister of Labor and Social Security on July 14, [...] This article The begging in Cuba acquires notoriety after crisis with former minister was originally published in IPS News Agency
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