Cuban father desperately looking for food: "Sell me an egg for my son"

The Cuban writerArnoldo Fernandez He narrated a difficult experience he had this week, when a neighbor came to his house in desperation, looking for someone to sell himegg to feed his son.

"He looks out of the window, tears in his eyes, many tears, it's after 10 at night. 'I need a favor from you.' I lower the volume of the TV to hear him better: 'Sell me an egg for my son. I'll pay you for it.' when I can'. I ran to look for it. I gave it to him. He returned home with those wet eyes. I imagined the happy boy eating fried egg.

Fernández published the short text on his social networks. It has received dozens of comments from Cubans that highlight thefood shortage in the country, the high price of food, the importance of solidarity in this time of extreme crisis and the human values of the writer.

"My eyes are watering while I read this publication. It touched my soul. God have mercy on us," said a Cuban.

"I also can't know that achild is hungry because that breaks my heart. My neighbors say 'but you are not God', but I am human and this hurts. "It hurts a lot," said another person.

"It is not an isolated case. There are many and others who do not get to ask for it and their children sleep in despair until dawn to see what may appear in the new day," another user commented on the publication.

Andegg carton in Cuba It can cost up to 3,000 pesos. The price represents much more than the minimum wage of a worker (2,100 CUP) and is double what a retiree earns with a pension of 1,500 pesos.

The cost of meat is inaccessible for many families and even rice, a basic cereal in the Cuban diet, has become a luxury for most households.

The regime's erroneous economic policies are plunging the people into absolute misery andparents have no resources to feed their families.

At the end of September the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) denounced the worryingincrease in extreme poverty in Cuba. The organization detailed that "88% of Cubans live in extreme poverty, 13% more than in 2022."