00:00It's not just about food. Clothing is a serious problem.
00:05It's serious, serious, serious. We have critical situations.
00:12You have to go through a lot of work.
00:14Like a good Cuban says, you have to work hard.
00:17You have the road.
00:19Why?
00:20Because the people, at least me, don't have the money to buy food.
00:28Imagine, to buy a pair of shoes,
00:31the cheapest pair costs 10,000 or 15,000 pesos.
00:36You have to be busy for 3 or 4 months to pay for your shoes.
00:40Buying clothes and shoes is a very complicated issue.
00:44I don't know how long it's been since I bought a new pair of shoes or pants.
00:49Because the problem is that they are very expensive.
00:51Clothing and shoes here in Cuba are really unfavorable for normal workers.
00:58The prices are very high, both for shoes and clothes.
01:03A pair of pants costs 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 pesos.
01:05A pair of shoes costs 25,000 pesos.
01:07A pullover costs 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 pesos.
01:11There is no longer a store like before.
01:14There used to be a store in Ceu C and Ceu P.
01:18You could go there and buy an average pair of shoes to work.
01:24For everything.
01:27That store doesn't exist anymore.
01:29Now everything is in Mele C and in normal stores.
01:32The only thing that is left is the basic pullover.
01:37Practically, right?
01:44A pair of shoes ranges from 12,000, 15,000 pesos to 20,000 pesos.
01:50A good pair of shoes that can last three or four years.
01:53A pair of pants costs 7,000 pesos, 8,000 pesos.
01:56A pullover, which is even the simplest thing, a shirt costs 5,000, 7,000 pesos.
02:00What is worn and worn here in Cuba is very out of date.
02:09Families have to ask for things from outside.
02:14If you don't buy it on a date, people bring it to you and sell it.
02:19If you buy it at a discount, you have to give half the money and know how much they ask for.
02:26This is a very serious problem in this country.
02:30Brother, dressing here is a luxury.
02:34Here comes the following.
02:36I prefer to eat than to dress.
02:38I prefer to ride my bike and have a full belly.
02:42Do you understand me?
02:44And when I came to see my brother, the situation was not over.
02:49There is no way that the Cuban citizen,
02:52when we were in a part of Cuba,
02:54could buy a pair of shoes, a pair of pants, a pullover.
02:58The issue is that the Cuban government does not pay an adequate salary
03:02to be able to buy a pair of shoes.
03:04The salary we earn is a nonsense.
03:07It's not enough to eat.
03:09If you eat, you can't pay for the current.
03:11If you pay for the current, you can't pay for the water.
03:13If you pay for the water, you can't buy anything for the children.
03:15So how are we going to dress?
03:17We can't dress.
03:18The situation of clothes and shoes is very difficult for young people, for people.
03:23What is in the stores is not good.
03:25They are old things from the 80s, 90s.
03:29Nobody wears that.
03:33And now everything is expensive, bad clothes and shoes, super expensive.
03:3812 years, even longer, because they don't have how to renew those clothes
03:44and how to dress in these difficult times in society.
03:48Here in Guantánamo, half of the population, or more than half of the population,
03:53are middle class workers.
03:56The majority are poorer than the middle class workers.
04:01And then what happens?
04:03The resellers, who are the ones who buy in other countries,
04:08who have the possibility, when they come,
04:10they want to sell you a pair of shoes or some very expensive clothes.
04:14And then with what you earn, the salary is very low,
04:20compared to the physical needs, even sanitary.
04:26Do you understand?
04:28When they come to see you, they don't give you,
04:32they don't give you the calculations you have,
04:35not even to buy you food.
04:38Imagine, to buy a pair of shoes.
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