The economic crisis in Cuba, the worst in the last 60 years, has caused many people to live in conditions of begging, a sad situation that the regime does not solve and to which, often, it reacts with total indifference.
However, the reality that the Cuban government tries to hide is reported daily on social media by internet users.
Arianna Llana warned this Thursday in the Facebook group "EL Vedado de Hoy" about people living in conditions of begging in the lower levels of the Galerías de Paseo complex, in Havana.
"It's a shame that there isn't any institution that deals with this," pointed out the woman, warning that, for all to see, these people live in conditions of vagrancy without the regime's institutions responsible for solving these problems doing anything.
The same person, one hour earlier, also reported a similar situation.
I'm going in search of bread and I come across this very ugly spectacle, and it's not the first time I see it," the person pointed out, once again denouncing the Cuban regime's inaction in the face of the consequences of poverty in the capital.
Begging in Cuba is a reality that the government can no longer hide as it did in the past. Year by year, the numbers show significant increases in extreme poverty in the nation.
According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), in Cuba, 3,690 wandering people have been registered between the years 2014 and 2023, as reported by the officialist newspaper Trabajadores, published last April.
Inflation and shortage of basic products are essential ingredients in the increase of begging in Cuba, a fact that the regime plans to reverse with its (umpteenth) plan to address "wandering people".
In streets where the mentally ill, elderly, disabled people, and alcoholics roam, the phenomenon is a reality that Miguel Díaz-Canel's government cannot hide, which is why the Council of Ministers approved last May the update of the policy for their care, after 10 years of being implemented.
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