An elderly Cuban ex-combatant who begs for alms to survive on the streets denounced that the government has totally abandoned him.
This is David González, who said that after the revolution threw him out, he was left in extreme poverty and with health problems. He now begs for alms to survive, reported the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights in Facebook.
“My house gets wet, I have work, I want the Combatants Association to help me repair my house, I have fought a lot for this, so they don’t abandon me,” said the old man, whose town does not appear in the video.
He added that his request for help is because he has nowhere to live with dignity. “I ask that you help me fix the roof and improve the conditions of my house. That they pay me a visit,” she stressed.
Recently a Cuban woman confronted the president Miguel Diaz-Canel during a tour of Jiguaní, Granma, and reminded him that there are many people in poverty in that town, and even “a combatant sleeping in a hammock” without government help.
At that time, the ruler recognized that there are more than “300,000 vulnerable” in the country.
Last May, a woman’s complaint came out, according to which an 80-year-old man, who was an ex-combatant and is bedridden, lives in a house in danger of collapse.
Also in February, a Cuban historian denounced the abandonment suffered by the combatants of the Revolution in Villa Clara and assured that there are not even crowns of flowers for your wakes at funeral homes.
Facebook user Máximo Luz, a member of the Union of Historians of Cuba in the Caibarién Base Section, said that in his municipality there are irregularities with the services offered by the funeral home to the families of deceased combatants.
