I had told you through the community tab, on YouTube and on other
social networks, that today I was going to meet a friend, a friend who comes from quite far,
from the other part of the island, and she is here in Havana. But then, before
starting, before going to see her and asking her how she managed to get here with all the problems
that there are right now with transportation, that you know there is no fuel,
and telling you about something that is happening with the dollar, The dollar is very important in Cuba, I want
to show you what I did this morning. Today has been quite a productive day. Last
week I had told them about how complicated it was to get a light bulb.
Today they are going to see what I was able to achieve in the morning, which is not a light bulb, by the way...
Anyone who has lived in Cuba knows that on many occasions things cannot even be achieved with money.
I had been dragging a problem for weeks and the possibility
of solving it appeared, so I decided to get down to work.
Some of you in your countries may not walk much, some of you
may have a car,
but in Cuba, if you do not want to spend a fortune on
taxis, or do not want to be squeezed like a sardine in a can, you will have to walk.
So once again I walked, this time towards Vedado.
In Vedado he did not have to wait long. When the interest in solving is
mutual, everything flows wonderfully, and what was it that I came looking for? This simplicity. In Cuba there
is no official store that sells it, nor ETECSA. The truth is that that's what I went to look for, I
already needed it, mine had completely broken, I'm going to show you so you can see.
It had broken here, I hit it with crazy glue on several occasions but I sleep with
the handle, so it would come off again in bed. The truth is that it doesn't seem expensive to me,
paying 300 pesos for this. 300 pesos is less than 3 dollars, how is the dollar now,
that's what we're going to talk about later in this video, when I meet
today's guest. It is a surprise that I have for you. I remember that when I was in Macedonia
I saw the set of handles, there were three handles of various colors, what happened is that you had
to buy the complete set and I was looking for some colors but what was in the set
was not what I wanted. So in the end I didn't buy it. I remember that it cost around
11 or 13 dollars at the exchange rate in Macedonia at that time, but nothing,
another problem solved. Now we are going to return to the present, we are going to return to the
boardwalk, where we were a few minutes ago. You already know that this is a place where many Cubans come
to fish, not only to talk, to unload, as we say, they also come to fish their food,
and the food is also directed to many palates and many private restaurants.
We are going to walk there a little to see if we meet my friend, which is
a surprise that I have for you. She had not been able to come to Havana
since the pandemic began, luckily she is here now.
So nothing, we're going to question her when we get to where she is to
see how she managed to get here, from the other end of the island. I tell you where it is from: Baracoa.
Look at her there, see if you recognize her.
Well, she has the difficult task of crossing the boardwalk.
Five minutes later Rosy found her way across the street. What madness.
What ball!
- How are you doing? - What ball? - There. Good.
I was there trying to see how it crossed to the side here.
Well you already know Rosy, those who don't, I present them to you. Her name is Rosy TV, she also has a YouTube channel, as
I was saying. You live in Baracoa, you are in Havana, for how long?
- I don't know, for a few days, around 15 or 20. - 15 or 20 days, until you leave for...? (away) - Yes, until I go back there (laughs)
Well, we are going to question her now to find out how she came to Havana.
- No, I'm already upset, no, no, and from Havana to get here I spent 1 hour on the bus, I already came with dizziness.
Tremendous, I already had my first encounter with the capital.
Well family, here is Rosy, from Baracoa, how did you get here? Tell us the gossip.
Well, first of all, I don't come from Baracoa but from Santiago de Cuba. Coming
from Baracoa would have been even more impossible than it was. Well, I was in Santiago, recording some
videos, and I went to the terminal, and when I got to the terminal, it just so happened that there was a person
who asked me if I was going to Havana. I tell him yes and he asks for my name and phone number because
the next day a car was going to leave and they were going to call me. I thought it was a lie.
Well indeed, at approximately nine in the morning the man called me
and we left around 11 in the morning for here. The car cost us 2,500 pesos, expensive, expensive, very expensive.
- But how much is a car normally worth up to here? - Let's see, the problem is that it was like a bus,
but if it's a private taxi, it's between seven thousand and eight thousand pesos, which at the exchange rate of the
dollar, which is 105 pesos, would cost around 70, approximately.
- So it's 105 there? Well, what I was going to tell you about the dollar, which is so important,
is that the dollar here is at 115 and has been rising. So, 2 days ago the dollar was at 109, today at 115
and the trend is for it to rise. There are some people
who want to buy, who force themselves on the black market, who buy at 110 but everyone who
sells does so at 115. - I remember when people started to go crazy, running to sell and sell dollars,
thinking that they were going to lower its value, but that cannot be because the
problem is that there is not enough to keep everyone buying dollars, whatever the amount.
Clearly it has a tendency to rise. - And in the face of scarcity, and you can give your opinion, in the face of scarcity, the one who
has the product is the one who sets the price, not the buyer, he is the one who has the product.
Rosy, do you have a calculator handy? - Yes, the cell phone. - We are going to make an account so that you can see,
with the new price of the dollar, how much the basic salary has been reduced in Cuba. Divide 3,200 by 115.
- 27.82 (dollars), almost nothing. - Well,
27 dollars a month, that's the average salary here, a doctor who earns, I don't know, perhaps 50 maximum,
I guess 50, he must earn less now with this rise in the dollar. How are
the prices over there? - Well, in Santiago de Cuba the malanga is 70 pesos, the tomato
is 70, everything is expensive. - Let's see, and this is important for people
who are going to come to Cuba, who plan to visit the country, not only those who are going to see their friends
and family, but also those who plan to do tourism here. Is there food in Baracoa?
- (laughter) - Don't laugh, this is serious.
Is there nothing in the restaurants? - Wait, I was amused by that question. Let's see, there are restaurants but they are not big restaurants, there
are three or four, but there is no food as such. The other day I was talking on
Instagram because they asked me if they had given me the chicken in the warehouse fee. It seems
that they erased the days of the month from the first to the 19th because they begin to "give" things
from the 20th (they don't "give" it, they sell it) and I say, don't the other days count for one to
eat? The thing is difficult. If life in Cuba is difficult, living in the East, which is what I
was telling you before starting to record, is very complicated because, for example, here in
Havana, liquefied gas in some places is free, or gas down the street You go with your balita (cylinder where the gas is poured) and
buy, but that's not the case there. There, a little liquefied gas bullet is costing three thousand pesos and there are
the unbearable blackouts of those from eight hours to 12 hours, and no electrical resistance appears. Well,
if there is someone here from my channel, they know it well because I have made videos about it, the issue of blackouts and
everything so difficult over there. Remember that I come from a coastal place but then now, the fish
does not appear and when it appears it is at 220 or 250 pesos because now what they do
is they catch it and go directly to sell it to the State. Imagine how impossible Baracoa becomes,
surrounded by the sea and the fish does not appear, it is crazy. - Well, here, where there is food,
and it has to be said because it has to be said for the people who come, so they know, here where there
is enough food to eat is in the hotel restaurants, there is everything there, there is lobster and
shrimp, everything and at prices that the private ones cannot compete with. In this
same video that I posted last week, which was in Cienfuegos, you know that now
the series begins, I ate in a private restaurant that I recommended there. At each meal they left around
700 pesos, almost 800, because it's not just eating, you have to wash it down with something (with some liquid).
So in the state restaurants the prices are lower, as I told you, that is, it is impossible
for a private company to compete with the State because the State has everything, exactly. There is everything there. - But for the foreigner who comes,
this inflation is now very good. - Yes of course. - Because they come with 200 or 300 dollars and you
say "I am the king" even though you don't believe that you really are. - Of course, that is really something that
inflation and the dollar exchange rate affect the worker who does not earn dollars, who earns
his salary in dollars, it does not affect him, on the contrary, it benefits him. So, it is a sad reality.
Well family, I wanted to share with you this time with Rosy, as you saw,
that's the name of the video "Welcome to Havana." - Is that what the video is called, "Welcome to Havana"?
- That's the name of the video. So nothing, Rosy is going to be with us for about 20 days, right? month, possibly.
So they are going to see a few videos of us, they are going to see
a few videos of Rosy with other youtubers, they are going to see her on other channels.
- Well, let's see if the others want to go out. - So nothing family, a pleasure
to have been with you and now I'm taking Rosy to the street, for a walk. - Bye