And cuban old man 90-year-old lives in a cave located in the mountainous municipality of Tercer Frente, in the province of Santiago de Cubaaccording to a complaint reported on networks.
“It is called Salvador Ortega and the cave is located in the Alto del Indio in the town of Las Bocas. For the last few years, Salvador, who is also known as El Nene, lives in an isolated hole in society. His choice of life was not by choice, but because he had no other option, ”he denounced in Facebook the user Petronilo del Río, who shares a video of the cave where the old Cuban is living.
The publication notes that “the government and the relevant authorities of the municipality have abandoned Salvador and others like him, and this is a crime against humanity.”
He also points out that the story of this nonagenarian “is similar to that of many other elderly people who live in poverty and loneliness in the Santiago municipality of Tercer Frente.”
“After working hard all his life, he was ignored by people like compañera Isnalvis Salazar Galán, president of the Popular Council of Matías. Salvador had nowhere to sleep or who to turn to, he was forced to seek refuge in an isolated cave in the mountains, ”the complaint underlines.
Likewise, he refers that “living in a cave is not easy”, because this old man “does not have access to basic services such as water, electricity or medical attention. He is forced to depend on the charity of others or what he can hunt or gather for himself.
The complaint highlights that the worst in this situation is the solitude in which a 90-year-old man lives. “He has no family or close friends who can take care of him. It is a crime against humanity that the responsible authorities in the Tercer Frente municipality do not meet the basic needs of the elderly, especially those who are in extreme poverty.”
The complaint requires local authorities their responsibility “to protect and care for the elderly.”
“They have a moral obligation to ensure that their basic needs are met. The government must provide housing, health care and basic services to vulnerable older people. It is time for the government to fulfill its responsibility and protect older people who, like Salvador, have no choice but to live in a cave,” concludes the complaint published in mid-June.
After the publication, a user commented that “later here they say that no one is unprotected. When reality is different.
“That’s out of a movie, incredible that things like that happen, having a nursing home in the municipality, I think it would be the best solution,” says another opinion.
In recent months, the Cubans have noted the seriousness of the phenomenon of begging in Cuba, where the government liked to point out that there were no people begging on the streets to survive on a day-to-day basis, but the drastic economic adjustment measures They have pushed thousands of families into poverty, and numerous cases to extremes.
Cuba is currently the poorest country in Latin Americaaccording to the firm DatoWorld, a renowned international electoral observatory that evaluates parameters such as per capita income, access to health services, social security, food and housing spaces.
The country has a 72% poverty rate, a figure that places it at the forefront of the Latin American region.
In the last week it transpired a heartbreaking message from a Cuban on the streets who asked for a peso because “he was hungry”disseminated by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.
“I need a peso, I’m hungry,” this heartbreaking message from a Cuban on the streets shows the increase in begging on the island, where the regime’s erroneous economic policies have triggered poverty and inflation.
“Poverty in #Cuba is an increasingly common and worrying evil that the Cuban state denies and does not intend to solve. 72% of Cubans live well below the poverty line,” the organization also denounced on Twitter. .
In the midst of the lack of attention from the authorities, the church and activists develop initiatives to help those most in need.
In January, two Brothers from Camagüey who have been living on the street for more than four years Together with their dogs, they received the selfless help of good Samaritans who were moved to learn their story.
The journalist José Luis Tan Estrada, coordinator of the Red Nacional De Corazón group in the province, went with other members to bring them clothes, coats, food, among other things.
In those days, a group of Cubans distributed soup to 20 homeless peopleafter a call by the activist Massiel Carrasquero Ramos to collect winter clothes for those who sleep in Galiano and Reina, in Central Havana.
Also in January, the Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostal de Cuba brought coats, sheets and hot drinks to people needy who spent the night in the streets of the city of Camagüey.
“The temperature dropped! It is cold in the streets, the church carries the warmth of Christ (coats, sheets, hot hot tea), the needy need us,” the church said on its Facebook wall.
The religious institution showed images of the humble and deprived people who live on the streets.
In December, young people from the parish of Nuestra Señora del Carmen, in Santa Clara, distributed hot meals to homeless and homeless people living on the streets.
