00:00 Look at the parks, how loneliness prevails.
00:03 As you can see, there are no streetlights, there are no public lights,
00:07 only the lights of the houses and the hotels.
00:10 They have their doors open, but empty.
00:13 There is no tourism on the island.
00:15 Tourists are afraid to come to the island because they are attacked, harassed, robbed.
00:23 San Ignacio Street. San Ignacio Street is very well known.
00:31 It is a very busy street.
00:37 There are many private businesses, private businesses,
00:46 and many businesses that are also related to the tyranny of the Castros.
00:52 Look at how the places are, empty.
01:13 Because tourists do not visit the island. There is no clientele, there is no tourism.
01:23 Look at how garbage prevails in the city.
01:27 There is no tourism.
01:30 Cubans do not have enough money to visit a bar, to sit down, to order a drink or something to eat,
01:48 since they do not earn enough money to consume the place.
01:59 Look at the parks, how loneliness prevails in the parks of the capital.
02:15 Look at how the whole city is shown.
02:18 At only nine thirty at night, it will take ten minutes to a quarter.
02:29 In the streets, as you can see, there are no streetlights, there are no public lights,
02:38 only the streetlights of the houses and the private places have bulbs, have good lights.
02:58 Here we are arriving at the famous Calle Obrapia, a street well known in the city, with many stories.
03:09 Calle Obrapia, between San Ignacio and Mercaderes.
03:25 Here the painting of the old café Prex still prevails.
03:33 Only private businesses, we continue down the street of San Ignacio,
03:46 only private businesses and the famous Mipime are the ones that have to offer to the population.
03:56 And that is why loneliness prevails, because economically there is no place to sit down like what you see here on the screen.
04:08 We continue the tour of the street of San Ignacio.
04:14 The famous Hotel Abaguané.
04:18 Look here, how loneliness prevails in the hotels.
04:31 They have their doors open, but empty. There is no tourism on the island.
04:38 Tourists are afraid to come to the island because they are attacked, harassed, robbed,
04:46 for the high prices that are currently presented.
04:53 We are approaching the Plaza Vieja, another site very frequented by tourists and by the Cuban on foot.
05:08 Here on the island.
05:10 And I repeat again, look how all the private bars are located.
05:19 Totally empty, for the reason of the prices.
05:30 The prices that do not allow the Cuban on foot to sit down,
05:37 to share with the family a drink, a lunch, a juice, a coffee.
05:47 All the places are empty in the city.
06:07 Look how it is.
06:10 All empty.
06:16 Nobody has money to sit down in a place like this.
06:22 The Barrio de la Catedral.
06:49 Look at the brewery of the Plaza Vieja, closed.
06:55 There are no customers. The government does not have to offer.
07:02 These places previously dominated, full of people,
07:10 full of tourists, Cubans, who visited the site.
07:17 We are finishing the tour here at the Bar La Vitrola.
07:22 Very famous, it is the only one I see that has a little more visitors.
07:27 Reporting for ND Cuba, Pedro Quiala, Julio Cesar Góngora.
07:33 End of the tour.
07:38 (upbeat music)
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