Three young Cuban women who are dedicated to prostitution spoke with a Spanish tourist about why they dedicate themselves to this activity, its risks and the aspirations they have in life.
The girls, ages 19, 20 and 22, said they do it because "we like money and things are bad."
After the three graduated from mid-level, they openly confessed that they have been in the "trade" for at least a year, and assured that their clients are always foreigners, to whom they charge between 150 and 200 dollars.
"We do it out of necessity, because this country is useless," said one, who assured that she does not work with the State because she would only earn "three pesos."
In their daily lives they have had to live through difficult experiences, such as clients who have not wanted to pay them and have even hit them.
"We fight with them and they have to pay us, we threaten them many times, because they threaten us," said the same girl with determination.
Despite how hard it can be, none of them seemed affected. On the contrary, they are proud of the money they earn, much more than any normal worker.
"This life here in Cuba is the best, because [with] the State you spend a month working and what they pay you is 3,000 pesos. So, here, in one day you make 200 Americans. (...) In one week We may have 500 Americans, more or less, it depends," said another.
The only disadvantage they see in what they do is that they must always be very groomed and well dressed because "as you see, now there are many girls doing this, and a lot of competition."
The heartbreaking testimony of these three young women was recorded by Guillem and Lucas, two Spaniards from Barcelona who are dedicated to showing the most marginal neighborhoods in the world on their YouTube channel.
On this occasion, they spent a week living in Cuba, where they were able to see the true reality of the people.
Recently the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) recognized that in CubaProstitution with foreigners persists in exchange for telephone recharges, a phenomenon that is not new and that indicates the increase in poverty and social exclusion on the Island.
In its recent National Report on Preventing and Confronting Human Trafficking and Protection of Victims in 2022, the Foreign Ministry had to tacitly admit the failure of the regime in trying to eradicate a degrading form of sexual exploitation in exchange for remuneration in kind.
"The incidence in Cuba offoreigners who interact with young people dedicated to prostitution in exchange for gifts and recharges telephone calls, as well as the online promotion and sale of videos and images with sexual content, whose payment is made through bank transfers from outside and inside the country," the organization stated.
The MINREX in its report does not refer to the high rates of the communications monopoly ETECSA, and to thelow salaries and pensions received by workers and pensioners in the country.
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