And Cuban boy sells soft drinks to earn a living on the street Havana, according to a publication shared on social networks.
“This child is going to be great in life. Not big in size, but in heart. At that age it's not what kids are thinking. This little guy is a fighter,” says a Cuban who found him on a corner of Monte Street, in Central Havana, after the minor who sold Coral soft drinks for 30 pesos a bag responded “to help his family”.
The video of the Cuban boy selling soft drinks on a Havana street was shared this Saturday on the profile of Tik Tok “Italian-Cuban couple. El Clásico y su Reina” and has generated numerous reactions among the followers of this account.
The Cuban who makes the video from his cell phone also assured, upon seeing the child, that these are the things that are done "when one wants to get ahead and has no excuses," and decided to buy him all the soft drinks possible with a dollar bill. one thousand Cuban pesos.
In the comments, a user pointed out that "it is true that due to individual conformity, it is better to be born into a family with resources, but difficult times are what make strong men."
In another opinion, an Internet user says that what the child does makes him sad, but also happy. “This kid, you have the courage to fight for life at that age, blessings daddy, many blessings and long life, health,” he underlines in the comment.
“It reminds me of my childhood, the same thing I did when I was 12 years old, when I was a girl I sold things on the street and at school they laughed at me,” says another comment.
However, a Cuban mother considered that “there was no way I would make my son, at that age, sell anything. “Childhood is very short and it is to be enjoyed.”
Another comment launched a veiled criticism of the regime by expressing: “Cuba, until when?”, although another user was more direct and stated that “in Cuba even children have to go out into the streets, it is the reflex imposed by the government.” ”.
Last April DatoWorld, a renowned international electoral observatory, indicated that Cuba is the poorest country in Latin America It has a 72% poverty rate and that alarming number places it at the forefront of the countries in the region.
It is also not the first time that cases of Cuban children working as street vendors to help their family have emerged.
The precariousness of numerous families on the island has been reported throughout the country. It doesn't matter if it is in the capital or in the western or eastern provinces of the island. Recently, the comedian Limay Blanco gave lunch to three children that he found collecting cans to sell and with that money to pay for food in their homes.
Last May, the case of another Cuban boy who sold quail eggs to help his grandmother in Guisa, Granma province.
The little one is called Elder and apparently his health is delicate because he was hospitalized for a time. In the midst of the current inflation, this boy went out to sell quail eggs on the street, to help his grandmother financially.
"The child for help with the expenses of his humble little house He sells quail eggs on the streets of Guise. I saw him pass in front of me selling eggs and sadness squeezed my heart. I only gave her what I had in my purse, 500 pesos," user Helen Fuentes said on that occasion on Facebook.
He explained that Elder and his grandmother live in the extreme poverty in Cuba, a situation that is increasingly common throughout the country, since the government of Miguel Diaz-Canel implemented a package of economic measures, known as Task Ordering, that have led thousands of Cuban families to absolute precariousness.
Shortly before this case, the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) had denounced that a boy from Santiago de Cuba collected raw materials on the streets and then sell it to a state company.
A video showed how the boy, about 11 years old, he walked with a stick on his back with which he carried two sacks full of raw materials and with difficulty picked up two empty cardboard boxes on the street.
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