This article, published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government, reports on the response by Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s president, to controversial remarks a day earlier by the country’s Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera. On July 14, Feitó Cabrera told Cuba’s parliament that there are no beggars in Cuba, that the island’s beggars are faking poverty in search of easy money, and that those cleaning windshields on the streets or collecting rubbish from trash bins are actually collecting raw materials without paying taxes. Her televised remarks went viral on social media, causing an uproar by the public and government officials alike. Feitó Cabrera resigned her post on July 15.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33764798

July 20, 2025

[translation of an article published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government.]

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    9·
    16 hours ago

    We have recognized, he said, that the worsening of these social problems is related to the economic crisis, which is also having a social impact due to the intensification of the measures of the blockade. Regarding this reality, he considered that the actions being carried out by the U.S. government have the “tenacious purpose of suffocating us economically, and with this economic suffocation, seeking social unrest, seeking rupture, seeking disunity, and the Revolution’s demise.”

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    640·
    17 hours ago

    “Fidel always defended the idea that the issue wasn’t economic growth; any society, any country, can have economic growth, and in Cuba, economic growth must be linked to social development; otherwise, economic growth makes no sense to us,” he said, which “has a lot to do with how we socially redistribute the wealth we all create.”

    no. NO. That’s now how anything works. Money first, then redistribution.

    I fucking hate commies. It’s like they are willfully ignorant of how any of this works.

    • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
      332·
      16 hours ago

      Nope. Commitment to equality in wealth comes first, or you lose your opportunity to ever do it again. The dragons do not give up their ill-gotten hoards.

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        221·
        15 hours ago

        How?

        And I think you mean equity. Equality doesn’t bring the downtrodden up.

        edit: and fuck you too. Just answer the question: How? How does a probably violent revolution produce equity for the masses without a free market? HOW?

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
          8·
          8 hours ago

          It doesn’t have to be violent. We could just collectively decide to ban capitalist corporations in favor of all businesses being worker owned cooperatives. That would get you pretty far towards a more equal and fair society.

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        321·
        16 hours ago

        Yes? About what?

        edit: oh, I see. The proverbial, “and then?” from improv class.

        Can you explain how a command economy serves anything but a military dictatorship?

        I have blocked a lot of communists on Lemmy, so maybe there are some comments I am ignoring.