Cuban family with three children denounces poor living conditions and threats of eviction

A young Cuban couple, along with three sick children, has reported living in precarious conditions without receiving help from the government, and the latter has threatened to evict them from the home they occupy.

"In this country they say they help mothers and children, but it's a lie. Nobody gets help here"said the mother last Monday in a video shared by the user Coffee with peas (@DiazVismar38292) and la red social X.

For his part, the father of the three children – at least two of them very young, according to the post – indicated that all They are sleeping on mattresses thrown on the floor due to a very critical situation they are facing.

Although neither the video nor the publication provide details about the place of residence of this large family, such as the location or address, they do expose the precarious conditions in which they live, which especially affects the infants.

“We are in a house because we have nowhere to be, we don't have housing", pointed out the young man.

The young mother reported that “even so, the police want us evict where did we get from”, implying, by their words, that they occupied a presumably uninhabited home.

“We have nowhere to put the children, we have nothing", the girl said through tears, also reporting that the three children are sickly, one of them is chronically asthmatic and another needs a blood transfusion for having low hemoglobin.

“No one comes to see what we need,” said the young mother while asking people for help to alleviate the hardship that this large family is going through.

The exacerbation of the crisis in Cuba It most sensitively affects large families or single mothers, who constantly denounce the apathy of the regime.

Last Sunday, a group of women with multiple children decided raise your voice to denounce that the government does not provide them with enough support.

The activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia shared on Facebook a series of videos starring Cuban mothers who live in poor conditions with their children.

The level of poverty has reached alarming levels in recent years, as the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights who has constantly reiterated that this situation keeps families in check.

The non-governmental organization detailed in the VI Report on the State of Social Rights in Cuba, that "88% of Cubans live in extreme poverty, 13% more than in 2022".