A young Cuban regrets having come to the United States to “scrub pots,” when according to him, in “Cuba he had it all”: party, car, women and an active social life.
In a video sent to CyberCuba Yandri, 25, says he arrived over the border with Mexico a month ago and was released with an I-220A (Parole Release Order). He currently lives in Tampa.
However, he affirms that life in the United States is not as it is portrayed, because in addition to the terrible jobs available, there is no time to socialize and it is difficult to get good jobs without the help of someone you know.
“Look, my people, I’m going to tell you the truth, a guy who had everything in Cuba, a guy who in Cuba sold his car and sold his clothes to come to Yuma to pedal and scrub the pot. People say that you crowned, right?” “What did I crown? This is the crown,” he says, showing a tray full of detergent.
“Scrubbing the cauldron since 4:00 in the afternoon. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the manipulators anymore. You know since when I haven’t had a drink of rum, just now I saw a bottle of honey and I got excited thinking it was rum, I went crazy of the suffocation that I have here,” he expressed.
He asks the Cubans not to let “no one tell you a story,” because if you arrive in the United States and “from the beginning no one gives you the light of anything, you are just one more, this is what it is, scrubbing the pot” , he emphasized.
“From Cuba to here, in all the bars in Havana,” at the Taiger concerts, “women not to mention” and now after his workday he must travel 5 kilometers on a bicycle to get home, he explains.
“And tomorrow the same thing, without a social life, without anything at all. In Cuba I had everything and no one messed with me,” said the young man, who does not clarify how this supposed “life of luxury” could exist in a country that is increasingly impoverished and expensive.
In statements to our publication, Yandri stated that if he does not adapt to life in the United States, he has no problem returning to Cuba.
Their feeling has been similar in other migrants, but not in the majority, who have arrived in the country in the context of the Cuban migration crisis, in which they have reached the Mexico-US border. more than half a million Cubans in two years.
In November, a Cuban migrant stated that the United States It’s really a “nightmare” because “you have to work a lot.” The woman, in her 50s, acknowledged that although you can earn money in this country and go to the places you want, she ended up working extremely tired.
“The American nightmare, there is no life, there is no life here, you have to work hard, the stress is constant, the work, you have to look good, it’s strong, it’s strong,” he said in statements to TikToker Dayron Cano.
However, the reality of 90 percent of the Cuban population speaks of families immersed in misery, without food, access to quality health services, and facing the worst inflation in recent decades. This, in a growing climate of violence and citizen insecurity and at the door of a huge economic package that promises to aggravate the crisis for ordinary Cubans.
In at least two years 533,000 Cubans arrived in the United States, a figure equivalent to 4.8% of the 11.1 million inhabitants; This is without counting entries with other types of visa for which there are no official figures available, as revealed by AFP using official data as a source.
