A video circulating on networks shows aold Cuban woman who bought some beef bones to eat, and that she is satisfied that at least she was able to achieve that.
"Next, another part of: 'The bones for the people'. This lady says that she will try to get it from where there is no 'haiga', and then increase it with a cassava or malanga...", said the user XCubaLibre on Twitter, where he shared the conversation that a young man has with the poor woman.
In the video you can see the old woman sitting on a wall on which the piece ofbones, which are out in the open, unwrapped and without any hygiene measures.
In the recording, the young man is heard asking her if she could get some meat out of that.
"Well, my son,now we have to take from where there is none", answered.
The veteran revealed thatThe piece cost him five pesos a pound. and she explained that at home she adds yuca or some malanguitas and she eats with that.
"Everyone is buying," he said, adding thatthat "has food".
In response to the video's author's criticism of the fact that they do not sell meat to the population, the woman was blunt: "And"I thank God for finding that.".
The Cuban government has long openly admitted that it spends most ofbeef that is produced in the country for tourism, while he sells the bones to ordinary Cubans.
In a newspaper reportWorkersIn 2020, José Miguel García Falcón, founder of the meat complex of the Turiguanó Genetic Livestock Company, in Ciego de Ávila, declared that beef was sold in some 86 hotels and in non-hotel facilities, while "by-products" were sold to the population. of beef in a butcher shop in the town of Turiguanó and in the fairs in the cities of Ciego de Ávila and Morón".
The elderly are one of the groups most affected by the economic crisis in Cuba.
With pensions that do not reach 2,000 pesos - it does not even give them enough to buy acarton of eggs, which sells for 2,400 and 2,500 pesos on the black market-, those who do not have family or any help find it difficult to survive, and it is increasingly common to see many of them begging for alms or looking for food scraps in the trash.
Just this week, an elderly woman from Santiago de Cuba who suffers from anemia complained that"There is no food, I am nothing more than bones."
"I have a 4.5 anemia, they have already sent me Rocephin, I am already taking it and now I am eating something. Look at the bones as they are, they are just about to come out," lamented the woman, named Celeste, in a video broadcast by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.
"I have to eat whatever appears because I don't have money to buy sheep meat for my discomfort," he added.
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