The Cuban youtuber “Anita con Swing” showed how much it costs her to make a weekly purchase in the United States and the figure once again demonstrated the failure of the socialist model, and its collapse at the hands of the so-called “continuity.”
“This is what I spend on my weekly shopping living in the USA,” said the YouTuber in a video shared through her social networksin which he showed his favorite supermarket and the products sold there.
Walking through endless aisles and shelves, the young Cuban woman put products into the cart.
Various types of meat (pork, chicken), bacon, ham, shrimp, eggs (the cheapest, $1.50 a dozen), coffee, juices, fruits, vegetables, cookies, jam, sausages, nuts, tomato puree, lentils , milk, bread, various types of cheese, dairy desserts, soaps, wine and an ornamental plant… how much did it cost?
Well, as he showed at the end of the video, such a weekly purchase (for two people) cost him 137 dollars and 19 cents.
He also showed the impressive pharmacy section in the supermarket, full of medicines. “Here I find everything my relatives ask me from Cuba,” she said.
Beyond the abundance and quality of products in the American supermarket, the video allows for a simple comparison that leaves a lesson for Cubans.
The minimum wage in the United States is set at $15.74 an hour, which is equivalent to more than 2,500 dollars a month. A weekly purchase like “Anita con Swing” is equivalent to spending about $550 a month (on food and hygiene products for two people).
While an American worker at the bottom of the salary scale can allocate a fifth of his salary to feed two people decently; In Cuba, a minimum wage worker cannot even buy 30 eggs a month.
Ana Virgos, better known on social networks as “Anita con Swing”, is one of the best-known Cuban YouTubers thanks to the freshness with which she initially commented on daily experiences on the Island.
The young woman is among the influencers, youtubers and Cuban tweeters who had to leave the island due to threats, continuous summonses, arbitrary arrests, police repression and the exacerbated censorship of the Cuban regime after the historic protests of 11J.
In addition to her, the list includes Carnota, Frank Camallerys, Dina Star, Emma Style, Clau Tropiezos, Klaudia and Frank el Makina, Víctor G., Yoliene, David Miguelín, Kristoff Kriollo, El Kende de Cayo Hueso, Jancel Moreno, Hildina, Yoliska Navarro (known as Yoliene), Duanys Moreno, and many more.
Almost all of them have suffered post-traumatic stress after leaving Cuba and facing forced exile, often without many resources.
After more than two years of exile in Spain, “Anita con Swing” shared with her followers her impressions upon returning to the Island in January of this year and confirm that the mass exodus of young people is leaving Cuba empty.
“There are very few people left. You can see the empty city,” explained the young woman sitting on the Paseo del Prado. Walking through the streets of Havana, the Cuban woman lamented that “people don’t have opportunities.”
