Cubans have requested help for the elderly Emilia Velázquez Caballero, who lives with cancer in her nose and mouth in the municipality of Gibara, Holguín.
In the video, a call for help circulated by the opposition figure José Daniel Ferrer, the person recording the elderly woman and presenting her case claims that the woman "lives with her husband bedridden in terrible conditions in their home."
"He needs medication, vitamins, and above all, food," he requested, while the elderly woman nodded in agreement.
"With the money she earns from her little check, she can't afford to buy so many groceries," she specified.
The woman lives on 30th Street, behind the spinning mill, in the Peralejo neighborhood of Gibara.
"As happens throughout the country, nurses are without medicine, without proper care, without food, without conditions, in misery. Everything is the opposite of what happens in the U.S. And the media of the tyranny continue to shamelessly lie," commented Ferrer.
The case of this woman is part of several that the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba has disseminated in recent days.
On Saturday, Ferrer highlighted the case of a Cuban girl living in Birán, Holguín, who sought help on social media after Hurricane Melissa destroyed the roof of her home.
"Help me, look at my little house, look at how the cyclone destroyed everything. 'I have no food and I can't take it anymore,' give me money to buy food. Look at my broken little house," the girl is heard saying in a Facebook video, while showing the roof that the hurricane lifted away.
“Look at my grandparents, they have no clothes or shoes, help us, give us money. Please, help me, I am a daughter of God,” she says at another moment, and the camera focuses on her elderly grandparents.
These cases are examples of the precariousness and structural poverty that Cubans suffer from, which has been exacerbated now in the East due to the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
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