“These phenomena contradict the rhetoric of the Revolution, which specifically promised a better future — with equality and well-being — for its entire population,” she notes. “What we see 60 years later is an increase in poverty and inequality and, what’s worse, a denial by the government of the structural causes that are producing it.”
That denial was precisely the reason why, last July, Minister Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera — who led the Ministry of Labor and Social Security — resigned from her post 48 hours after publicly stating that there were no beggars in the country, even though the island’s streets are populated by people experiencing homelessness, clamoring for money or food. Even so, the official insisted that these were only people “who were pretending to be beggars.”
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We’re not blaming the world’s longest embargo?
hey man according to cuban government there are no homeless only people “who were pretending to be beggars.”
to do this while there is massive poverty suggests it’s not the embargo but the shitty government
it’s also hilarious that a communist country needs free trade to not be poor, that capitalism, too good 😊
