De Batabanó a la Habana para vender pescado

ADN America

Mario Castellanos, de 60 años, trae pescados desde Batabanó hasta la Habana para venderlos en la capital. El vendedor de pescado contó a ADN Cuba que se levanta a las 3 de la mañana y que tiene que pagar 500 pesos para poder viajar a La Habana.

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00:00 The man has his business, very honored. Show me the fish. He sells fish, very honored, at great honor. Look, where do you bring the fish from?

00:12 From Batabanon.

00:13 From Batabanon. At what time do you get up there?

00:15 I get up at 3 in the morning.

00:17 3 in the morning, to go fishing?

00:19 To go fishing.

00:20 And what do you fish with?

00:21 A week in the water.

00:23 No, what do you fish with? With a rod or a rod?

00:26 No, with a rod and that, in the water.

00:28 So you go fishing?

00:30 In the water, to fish and to look for fish.

00:32 How old are you?

00:33 I am 60 years old. Imagine, I am already 23 years old.

00:38 23 years fishing? And you come from Batabanon?

00:41 From Batabanon, to be able to survive.

00:43 And what is the price of the fish?

00:45 Well, this fish is worth 1,200.

00:48 1,200, but it's good because the free fish is 900 pesos and that has more than one pound.

00:53 It has more than 4 pounds.

00:56 It is being sold at a good price.

00:58 And I want to ask you a question.

01:00 Is the demand for the fish high?

01:03 Well, when I walk it, if I have it reported,

01:06 that they ask me, but as long as they don't ask me,

01:10 I have to start selling it.

01:13 On your own?

01:14 On my own.

01:15 Twenty-something years of selling fish on your own?

01:18 A month, two months, four months.

01:22 No, it depends on the possibility that one has.

01:25 Because it's a complicated thing.

01:27 Give me a place, the things that this is.

01:30 I'm doing it because I need it.

01:33 I need to eat.

01:35 Of course, and it's hard. Do you have a family?

01:38 I live alone, my mother passed away, but I have to survive.

01:42 I left my job, now I'm working in a hotel.

01:45 I leave my hotel, I do my job and from there I start doing the same thing.

01:51 Have you ever been repressed for selling fish on the street?

01:56 Well, I haven't found it yet, but I know I'm going to find it.

02:00 Yes, but have hope and faith that you won't be repressed.

02:03 But is there an answer to that?

02:05 I didn't commit a crime, I caught it.

02:08 When people tell you that you have to get a license,

02:10 that you have to have permission from the sea,

02:12 and the permission of the fish, and the permission of the sand,

02:15 because here everything is permission.

02:17 And thank God that when you come to Aguagua, they don't take it away from you.

02:21 Because that's another risk.

02:23 Another risk when you come.

02:25 I've heard that they take it away.

02:27 I have a machine, the machine costs 500, 600.

02:31 500, from Batabanó here?

02:34 No, 600.

02:35 500, 600 pesos a day would give the fish?

02:38 Yes, in the machine.

02:40 And I want to ask you another question.

02:43 Does it cost you a lot of work to get on the transport to come here?

02:47 Yes, of course.

02:49 Because the situation is difficult.

02:50 Because there is no transport, there is no oil, there is nothing.

02:53 And the same drivers who are renting,

02:56 they charge you because they are taking it, that we don't have oil.

02:59 And they charge you a little more.

03:02 Yes.

03:03 That's what the ticket costs.

03:07 Of course, they give you a tape or the rib so they can see you regretting it.

03:10 No, they don't pay you because they have to do it.

03:13 But it's very difficult.

03:15 We are doing a report for ADN Cuba.

03:17 What's your name?

03:18 Mario Hidalgo, from the city of Nacho Avalos.

03:20 Look, families, reporting for ADN Cuba,

03:22 Carlos Milanes, Julio Cesar Góngora.

03:24 Look, from 3 in the morning,

03:26 they get up in Batabanó to go fishing.

03:28 And look how the capital comes here to survive and for its inhabitants.

03:32 God, homeland and freedom.

03:36 ADN Cuba.

03:39 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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