Cuban Guillermo Durán survives by accumulating food scraps he finds in the garbage dumps from Old Havana, Centro Habana and Plaza, in the country's capital, to then sell the sancocho for 500 pesos per tank, according to what he stated. Cuba DNA.
This 57-year-old man reported that collect two tanks of sancocho daily, which he then sells to 500 pesos each, which allows him to earn 1,000 pesos each day, the news portal reported in a video recently published in Facebook.
Durán said that, among all people who raise pigs In order to have some food on the table, he has plenty of customers who want to buy the sancocho he collects.
He pointed out that the municipalities of San Miguel del Padrón and El Cotorro are where they buy the most food waste that he collects.
The man explained that he does this work to support his wife and two children, and pointed out that earn around 30,000 pesos a month.
From the age of 18, and for a decade, he worked for the government, first in road repair and then as a gardener at the University of Havana.
As he explained to the news portal, he stopped working in government entities because “things got bad and he couldn't account for it, prices went up and the salary did not pay”.
The actual economic crisis, added to the recent measures of the regime related to monetary regulation, has not only left the elderly in Cuba helpless, but has led them to work in adverse conditions as their only means of subsistence.
That is the case of Raúl Pupo Bermejo, 71 years old and with two inguinal hernias, who walks more than five kilometers every day pushing his wheelbarrow with fruits and vegetables through the streets of Holguín.
He should have been at home resting, but his pension was 1,700 pesos a month, and that was not enough "not even for croquettes," he told the independent portal. CubaNet.
In the midst of this panorama, some people have created initiatives to protect the elderly abandoned by the regime.
An example is carried out by Yankiel Fernández, coordinator of the Breath of Life Humanitarian Project, who asked on his Facebook profile for financial help with which to buy groceries to continue giving lunch to the 28 elderly people they care for.
The private Cuban initiative that delivers food to elderly people without resources found it necessary to ask for donations to be able to maintain its dining room, in the midst of the terrible crisis that the country is going through.
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