The announcement is a milestone in a monolithic government system in which the internal cohesion of the Communist Party of Cuba does not move. This Tuesday, the country’s minister of labor, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, resigned from her day after affirming before a commission of the National Assembly of Popular Power that on the island the beggars do not exist, but only “people disguised.” In an official note read in the state -owned night television news, the Cuban executive reported that Feitión resigned after “recognizing her mistakes” in his speech in Parliament.
The statements of the Cuban leader caused a deep discomfort not only in the opposition and in exile, accelerated in recent years precisely because of the economic crisis, but also in the governmental apparatus itself. With these premises, the president himself, publicly disallowed the minister, thus forcing the resignation.
“We have seen people, apparently beggars. When you look at your hands, look at the clothes that these people carry, they are disguised as beggars, they are not beggars. In Cuba there are no beggars,” the exminist has expressed on Monday during a session called to publicize precisely the public policies of protection of the vulnerable sectors of society. “When there are people who are on the street cleaning windshield […] They have sought an easy way of life, in traffic lights, asking, cleaning and possibly later with that money what they are going to do is take, ”he added in reference to alcohol consumption. He also charged against people without resources forced to seek livelihoods in the garbage.“ Those people are recovering raw material and what they are, are illegal of their own work ”, he came to say.
Díaz-Canel failed the high official already on Tuesday morning through a message posted in his X account. “Very questionable the lack of sensitivity in the vulnerability approach. The revolution cannot leave anyone behind, that is our currency, our militant responsibility,” he wrote. More afternoons, during his speech at parliamentary headquarters, the president tried to amend Feitó’s speech when referring “to a real and unwanted phenomenon: the existence of certain expressions of vulnerability, as people in street situations or with wandering behaviors.” “These people, who sometimes describe as beggars or linked to begging, are actually concrete expressions of social inequalities and the accumulated problems we face. And I say it because I do not share some criteria issued in the commission on this subject. It would not be honest if I did not share with you what I think: it is counterproductive to issue judgments like those,” he continued, he continued, he continued, according to the official media.
after the Covid-19 pandemic and led to an unprecedented exodus. In just one year, between 2022 and 2023, the population of the island was reduced by almost 20%, according to an extended calculation.
