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
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    6 days 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.”