A cuban boy sells soft drinks to earn a living in calle de Havanaaccording to a publication shared on social networks.
“This child is going to be great in life. Not big in size, but in heart. At that age it’s not what kids are thinking. This little boy is a fighter,” points out a Cuban who found him on a corner of Monte street, in Centro Habana, after being told by the minor that he was selling Coral soft drinks for 30 pesos a bag “to help his family”.
The video of the Cuban boy selling soft drinks on a Havana street was shared this Saturday on the profile of Tik Tok “Italo-Cuban couple. El Clásico and its Queen” and has generated numerous reactions from the followers of this account.
The Cuban who makes the video from his cell phone also assured, upon seeing the child, that these are the things that are done “when you want to get ahead and have no excuses,” and decided to buy him as many soft drinks as possible with a ticket. thousand Cuban pesos.
In the comments, a user pointed out that “it is true that due to individual conformism, it is better to be born in a family with resources, but difficult times are what make strong men.”
In another opinion, an Internet user says that he is saddened by what the child is doing, but also happy. “This kid has the courage to fight for life at that age, blessings daddy, many blessings and long life, health,” he underlines in the comment.
“It reminds me of my childhood, I did the same when I was 12 years old, as a girl I sold things on the street and at school they laughed at me,” says another comment.
However, a Cuban mother considered that “it was not at all for me, at that age, to sell anything. Childhood is very short and it is to enjoy it”.
Another comment launched a veiled criticism of the regime by expressing: “Cuba, how long?” ”.
last april DataWorlda renowned international electoral observatory, indicated that Cuba is the poorest country in Latin America since it presents a 72% poverty index and that alarming number places it at the forefront of the countries of the region.
Nor is it the first time that cases of Cuban children working as street vendors to help their families have been reported.
The precariousness of numerous families on the island has been reported throughout the country. It does not matter if it is in the capital or in the western or eastern provinces of the island. Just now, the comedian Limay Blanco gave lunch to three children that he found collecting cans to sell and with that money to be able to pay for food in their homes.
Last May, the case of another Cuban boy who sold quail eggs to help his grandmother in Guisa, Granma province.
The little one is called Elder and apparently his health is delicate because he was hospitalized for a while. In the midst of the current inflation, this child went out to sell quail eggs on the street, to help his grandmother financially.
“The boy for help with the expenses of his humble house He sells quail eggs through the streets of Guisa. I saw him pass in front of me selling eggs and sadness squeezed my heart. I gave him only what he had in his purse, 500 pesos,” user Helen Fuentes said on Facebook on that occasion.
He explained that Elder and his grandmother live in the extreme poverty in Cubaa situation that is increasingly common throughout the country, since the government of Miguel Diaz-Canel He implemented a package of economic measures, known as the Ordinance Task, which have led thousands of Cuban families to absolute precariousness.
Shortly before this case, the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) had denounced that a boy from Santiago de Cuba collected raw material in the streets to later sell it to a state company.
A video showed how the boy, about 11 years oldhe walked with a stick on his back with which he carried two sacks full of raw materials and with difficulty picked up two empty cardboard boxes in the street.
