Hesuicide of an 83-year-old man in Las Tunas, former combatant from Angola, after having been fined 4,000 pesos for selling food in a wheelbarrow and not having money to pay the fine, has dismayed the victim's family, neighbors and acquaintances.
The man, identified asÁngel Pacheco Soublet sold fruits and vegetables to help support his wife, who remains bedridden, and his daughter, who takes care of her sick mother.
“Let us never forget that everything we do in life pays off. Some call it Karma, others divine justice, I call it logic... you get what you give.”Said Internet user Mari Rio Chico on Facebook, a woman from Las Tunas who came to the family's house to confirm first-hand what happened and offer her help.
“This is a call, a call above all from the heart. Gentleman, put your hand on your heart, those inspectors when they are going to issue a fine see the social situation we are in. See that we went through a pandemic. When I said it during the pandemic, I thought we were going to be better people and what we are becoming. Far from adding we are subtracting. Please, without words,” said Rio Chico in a video in which he spoke with the daughter of the deceased.
Dozens of comments in the forums where the news was published reveal the absolute dismay and sadness among those who knew Pacheco Soublet, whom everyone says was a very good and helpful person.
“How sad when you lose a neighbor who watched you grow up. How sad that these things happen because of extremist people! I received this news in the morning and it hurts me not to be able to be there to give a hug to my friend Yuliet or my neighbor Sandra," he lamented inFacebook a former resident of the area residing abroad.
"How sad! That they can't catch the shameless people who steal and defraud the people and that this man for selling some snacks has led him to commit this madness that was his only solution or his only way out because he knew he had nowhere to get it." The same Internet user added indignantly.
In recent years, social networks have given visibility to a growing number of elderly Cubans who survive on the island in situations of extreme vulnerability, which in many cases leads them to carry out jobs that complement their meager pensions.
In Cuba there are around 1 million 600 thousand retirees, and of them more than half receive the minimum pension, that is, around 800,000 pensioners receive 1,528 CUP per month, the minimum established by law for retirements after 30 years. of service, an amount even less than the minimum wage, set at 2,100 CUP by the government since 2021.
With an overwhelming disadvantage in their income, those 800,000 retirees must pay for the same products and services as the rest of the population, in a country where prices increased by 77% in 2021, according to the island's National Office of Statistics and Information ( ONEI).
Furthermore, it is not the first time that a misfortune of this nature has occurred in Cuba. In March of last year it was newssuicide of a young man in Mayari, in the province of Holguín, after having been fined by the police with 5,000 pesos for selling agricultural products on the street without having a license to do so.
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