Amid the worsening economic crisis in Cuba, a group of people was captured on video collecting picadillo from the ground after an incident at a market in Havana.
The influencer Alain Paparazzi displayed the footage and blamed the incident on "the communist misery that forces you to think like a wild animal trying to survive."
"It is preferable to try to be free than to live worse than dogs," he wrote on his X page.
The incident has unleashed a wave of comments about the acute shortage suffered by the population and the difficult economic situation the country is going through: "What a lack of respect, people scraping ground meat off the floor," is heard in the video.
Another similar scene was reported a few months ago in Santiago de Cuba, where dozens of people hurried to collect vegetable oil from the street after a truck spilled part of the product in front of the store "La Internacional," located at the Rotunda of "Arts and Crafts."
The local reporter Yosmany Mayeta Labrada then published that "children, adults, and even motorcyclists arrived with containers to collect this scarce product from the tables of Cubans," regardless of whether the product was contaminated.
Images of Cubans collecting yogurt from the trash have also gone viral, as well as another incident last year in San Miguel del Padrón, where a group of people rushed to gather flour that had fallen from a truck carrying the product.
The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights has repeatedly denounced the increase in extreme poverty and begging on the island. It is becoming more common to see people rummaging through the trash in search of food or picking up fallen products without worrying about their hygiene or quality.
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