Mother and her disabled son abandoned by the government in Santiago de Cuba

Cuban María Caridad Rodríguez, along with her disabled son, survive in conditions of extreme poverty and totally helpless by the government in the Morón de Palencia town, Songo-La Maya municipality, Santiago de Cuba.

This woman cannot work, since she lives to take care of her 40-year-old son, who was born with a congenital malformation in the right kidney, is deaf and mute and cannot take care of himself.

“I have never had the attention to help my son beyond what I fight for him,” he complains of the authorities, ina video released by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH)

This woman reports that no one has paid attention to them, they live in a guano house, with a charcoal stove and a dirt floor, they do not have a refrigerator or other appliances.

“This little house is practically useless, I invented this one with bits of zinc that I found around there,” confesses this Cuban who has to dedicate herself exclusively to caring for her son.

“For him there has never been a possibility. When the items that were given to cases like him were distributed, I, seeing that my son was not given anything, went to the provincial government. “They told me that this help was no longer being given,” he complains.

María Caridad Rodríguez has been waiting for years for a house that the government promised her to improve her situation.

“In February 2020, the president of the government of the Songo-La Maya municipality was here and saw the situation. Then, the president agreed that they were going to build me a little house to improve the situation we had. And I'm still waiting," he concludes.

In a country with a high rate of aging, in the midst of food shortages and the economic crisis, requests for help from helpless Cubans who the State has left to their fate are becoming more and more common.

This same Sunday, a Cuban woman spread a desperate request for help on social networks so that the authorities assistan old man who is bedridden and survives in conditions of extreme povertyin Villa Clara.

On Saturday, for his part, Cuban Yunier Zapata, a resident of Holguín,He asked for help for his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer'sand does not have economic and financial resources to survive.

Last week the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights had given visibility to thecase of a woman and her mother, residents of Songo-La Maya,who survive helpless by the government.

“He lives complaining day and night about pain. I don't know what I'm going to do with the situation he has. "I'm on the verge of taking my own life to see her in so much suffering and so much pain without medication," Joaquina Rodríguez Vera explained through a video.