"I need a peso, I'm hungry," this heartbreaking message from a Cuban on the streets shows the increase in begging on the island, where the regime's erroneous economic policies have triggered poverty and inflation.
The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights published the video, wherethe man is lying on the sidewalk next to a sign with the aforementioned phrase.
"Poverty in #Cuba is an increasingly common and worrying evil that the Cuban state denies and does not intend to solve. 72% of Cubans live well below the poverty line," the publication denounced on Twitter.
Although the location where the video was filmed is not specified, others recently published by that entity pointed out the sustained increase of the phenomenon in provinces such as Holguín and Santiago de Cuba, while the helplessness experienced by the elderly on the island increases.
"On the streets of Santiago de Cuba, as in the rest of the island, poverty and lack of attention from government authorities lead the elderly tobeg to be able to eat something and survive," the organization posted on Twitter a few weeks ago, along with a video of an elderly woman asking for a coin because she was hungry.
"I'm hungry," he is heard saying. The video also shows another elderly woman who survives on the streets of Santiago with the few items she sells.
These complaints have become frequent in Cuba, where thefood shortage and inflation have plunged thousands of people into extreme poverty.
In April the firm DatoWorld, a renowned international electoral observatory, said that Cuba is the poorest country in Latin America, with a 72% poverty rate. The elderly are the population group most affected by this situation.
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