A Cuban farmer denounced the poor conditions in which he works in the fields, marked by a scarcity of resources and the exploitation by the bosses whom he criticized for living "on lies."
"Here, the bosses only lie to us and make sure we produce so they can keep their eyes on us," declared the farmer to the independent outlet ADN Cuba.
The Cuban pointed out that the bosses spend time in the offices, without worrying about getting close to the field workers.
"They do not know what you have here. The farmer decided to move this forward, but if we don't have a leader, how are we going to achieve it?" he stated, speaking about autonomy in work.
He assured that he delivers from his production "to all entities," although he faces great difficulties in his daily life, such as the arrival of a tractor to be able to plow the land.
"We need to find a tractor from another municipality to come and prepare the land, and they just keep feeding you lies," she denounced.
Among the commitments he has, he listed that he sends products for pregnant women, the children's circle, the rehabilitation room, to the secondary school, and also to the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production (UBPC), “but no one supports you, what they want to do is just ruin your life,” he said emphatically.
The man repeated that it is not in the office but in the field where the authorities need to direct themselves. “Then when you have something, they don’t take their eyes off you, but they don’t know where anything came from… Here we work day and night" to be able to achieve production, he stated in a sort of call for his message to reach the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel.
It also mentioned that the payments for productions are very low. “The payment is very low, very low,” another farmer repeated in the clip.
"And sometimes they are putting pressure on you to sell meat to the slaughterhouse. But that doesn’t add up for me. Because if I want to change production, I have to sell. So to buy the goat, and since the sheep-goat are more expensive, it ends up costing me more; therefore, they always affect that part regardless. The farmer gets paid very little in that regard; it's better to sell to a private individual, it produces better results," he concluded.
Last July, a farmer from Pinar del Río went viral with some verses in which he denounces the lies of the regime, recounting what happened during a visit by Díaz-Canel to his province.
The man conveys in a very original way what happens when visits from high officials are announced to towns and municipalities in the interior, where the authorities do anything to distort the truth.
In the video shared on TikTok by the user Ariel Fuentes, the man details that when Díaz-Canel went to Viñales, the local government did everything to hide the crisis, from painting the royal palm trees to bringing cows from another area to showcase "their livestock."
Later, when the government visit is over, hardship and scarcity return without any retouching or embellishments to people's lives.
The lack of sensitivity from leaders towards the work of farmers is such that in a meeting of the Agro-Food Commission of the Cuban Parliament, in mid-July, a report from the Ministry of Agriculture (Minag) was analyzed, detailing the economic results obtained by the end of June 2024, which indicated that this entity owes nearly 200 million pesos to farmers in the country, a situation that has generated criticism in the agricultural sector.
The government's management of the agricultural sector is among the worst in Cuba's history. The country requires a thorough review and effective measures to resolve debts and improve production, thus ensuring the basic sustenance of the Cuban population.
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