A man was captured while looking for food in the garbage deposits in the well-known Heredia park in Santiago de Cuba.
The event was recorded on video and disclosed by the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) on its Twitter account.
According to the organization, this is a man with mental problems and without medical treatment, who wanders around the park where he usually checks the trash cans in search of food.
Events like this have become frequent in recent times in Cuba, where food shortages and high prices have driven thousands of people into poverty, causing aincrease in begging throughout the country.
Among the most affected are the elderly and the mentally ill. The latter have seen their situation worsened due to the lack of medicines, which forces them to continually suspend their treatments.
Last March, the video of aelderly woman with mental problems in Havana who went out without clothes for the street, he lay down on the ground and started shouting nonsense while the cars passed by him.
The woman, in her rant, said that she was the one who had 800 pounds and shouted "down with Díaz-Canel." Several Internet users pointed out that she possibly had some psychiatric illness and was decompensated due to the lack of medicine.
The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) has reported on its networks several stories of elderly people who survive by begging for alms.
One of them is Fernando Ortin Calado, 76 years old, whobeg for money on the streets to eat once or twice a day, because he has no income and the government Social Welfare entities have delayed the renewal of his checkbook.
"I have gone to Social Welfare several times, they treat me very well but they don't solve anything for me. I walk down the street begging for alms and I can have a checkbook, which I need now, and I can't do little jobs for individuals because I don't have papers," he said. .
Another case is that of aelderly woman who was recorded begging for alms so she could eat something and survive.
"I'm hungry," he is heard saying in a video shared by the OCDH.
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