I don't know what you think, but I believe that if everyone had the money to leave
Cuba, Cuba would already be empty, even those who defend the things that happen in Cuba. There are
many reasons for this, although each one has a specific one, fatigue is general. We are going to
take advantage of this tour through one of the most emblematic streets of Havana, so that those who
comb gray hair can compare what was and what is. Several comments had already asked me to
walk down this street, we've had a few videos touching it from afar but
the time has come. Let's walk it. Look, here they have garbage, a custom that makes the city ugly,
that you don't get to see as much in central streets as Belascoain, because the real dumps
are not in these streets, they are in the inner streets, like the one you saw in the
last video. The truth is that the fuel problem has begun to affect transportation,
to the point that we have already begun to see electric motorcycles being used as taxis, just like
in the provinces, the famous motors, which are used in the East and Central from the country.
And there is a notable increase in homelessness. Let's stop here for a moment.
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Know that alms of one peso, three pesos, is equivalent to nothing. They must carry at least 10
or 20 pesos in their pocket for this. We are passing by a store that, as you can see, is
closed. That's how many are found, completely out of stock, that's how many other stores
in Havana will see, mostly those that stayed for the sale of products in national currency. MLC's
are still a little more stocked, if you can call that stocking.
Many often ask me what I should bring to Cuba to give as a gift. The answer is simple:
bring toilets, bring medicines and also bring food, simple things, knick-knacks, nuts,
those simple things many people will thank you for and not only because of what they cost
here, but because it is difficult to get them. If people could have the
least at hand in Cuba, I believe that many would desist from leaving the country.
Look, a shoe store . In theory, vendors can only market domestically manufactured products,
but many sell things brought from abroad, and inspectors sometimes turn a blind eye.
I believe that the law should be very clear, either it is sold or it is not sold, with preference
for it to be sold, of course, everyone who sells what they want. Commerce
has been restricted for a long time, everything controlled by the State, all
State stores, all State hotels, out of stock stores, empty hotels that,
by the way, prices in hotel restaurants move to the price
of the dollar on the black market, a more than interesting situation. Let me know what you think of that.
The truth is that, well, I think the images speak for themselves, a small sample of
abandonment. In this street later we will see worse images. In Havana there have been
a total of 26 total landslides according to statistics. Look, this is Salud street
and on this street there are several restaurants in Chinatown straight there, where
you can eat good, nice and relatively cheap,
where you can see the illuminated sign, cheap for foreigners, let's clarify.
For ordinary Cubans, having an ice cream is already a luxury, and having a beer, too. Beers
cost up to 200 pesos, the same as a pizza, the same as some jabita with five or six loaves. So
we go here. Many no longer remember what a good homemade sweet is, not only because of the lack
of sugar, but also the flour; Incidentally, in Camagüey they have begun to make hamburgers and
croquettes from cassava flour. Scarcity is the mother of invention, the salt hasn't come to the warehouse
for almost three months and it's very difficult to find it on the street, I don't know if there is any in the stores in MLC.
This is how many people make a living, selling candy, sweets and that kind
of thing. A few meters further on we have the Zanja and Belascoain bank, we are going to walk
outside to avoid the crowd, and on the right hand side we have the Zanja funeral home.
I think it will be impossible to cross here.
Indeed, we are going to turn around.
Life in Cuba, the country that everyone wants to flee. Look, another store completely out of stock,
and another market closed. Many ask in the comments what so many people are doing on the street.
It is something that those who are not Cubans cannot understand. Simple: trying to find food
and solving what is needed on a day-to-day basis to maintain the house, to support the family,
to survive, because it cannot be called living, it stopped being called living a long time ago.
Those who take action faster are the young, even parents know that
young people have no future. What future can a young man have who, when he graduates as an engineer, is going
to earn 30 dollars a month, hopefully 50? Already around here you begin to see how destroyed
this street is, from what it was to what it is. The guarapo that used to cost a peso,
People complain that the guarapo has a lot of water.
For those who do not know what guarapo is, it is the juice of sugar cane.
These bikes are also being used as public transportation.
Although this area is not one of those with the most problems, the effects on the electricity supply
continue. It is not possible to resolve the energy crisis in Cuba, even with all
the fuel that Venezuela sends; popular discontent is very large and not
only manifests itself in social networks, it also manifests itself in the streets. Here is the folklore.
The government threatened participants in the recent
protests with lengthy sentences, including for social media offenses against public officials.
What is not clear is what will happen to those who went out to
hit women, whose images are already in the public domain on social networks.
We are going to cross the street that this building
that people are walking under is falling. A few years ago there was
a partial collapse on the corner and a communal worker died.
The truth is that the situation is quite tense. Some followers tell me in
the comments that there are blackouts in their provinces of up to more than 15 hours.
I could put up 15 or 20 more posters, but what would it do? Look, here they have another store,
closed. This is how almost all those who should sell products in national currency are. Milk at
1,500 pesos, half the average salary in Cuba, a bottle of oil at 700,
the scarcity creates overprices; With the salary you buy four or five
products at most, it is that normally what lasts is a week, between the
salary, the queues, the blackouts and the shortage, they already compare us with Haiti.
Well, here we have street forward, but we are going to do this another time.
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