Homeless people sleep at the Lenin Hospital stop in Holguín

A Cuban shared some sad images of people living on the streets in Holguín.

The images, which were taken by Julio César Alvares Marrero, show a man and a woman, elderly adults, in total abandonment sleeping at the Lenin Hospital stop, in the city of Holguín.

“These are the things that the ‘authorities’ should pay attention to, not to monitor opponents, activists, journalists, artists, etc.,” commented activist Leandro Pupo Garcés, who He spread the images through Facebook.

Activists and civil society organizations have warned in recent years about the increase in begging in Cuba in a context of inflation, shortages and low wages.

At the end of February, residents of an area of Vedado, in Havana, denounced the abandonment by the authorities of a mentally ill man in conditions of extreme destitution in his own house.

After several days and after repeated complaints to the government and Public Health of the Plaza de la Revolución municipality, in the Cuban capital, an ambulance picked up the neighbor on A Street, between Zapata and 33rd, who had been lying among garbage and for more than 48 hours. his personal belongings, with a serious crisis of schizophrenia.

In January, two brothers who live on the street They received the selfless help of good Samaritans who were moved to learn their story in Camagüey.

Last October, for its part, several videos of elderly people collecting spoiled food in two garbage deposits.

The situation of this population group is very vulnerable in the current Cuban context, which has forced many older adults to give up their rest to return to work.