00:00Are you going to celebrate Valentine's Day?
00:03I don't know how I'm going to celebrate Valentine's Day.
00:05February 14th doesn't exist in Cuba.
00:07That was a year ago.
00:09In Cuba it's February 14th.
00:11You don't even fall in love with yourself.
00:13Eating newspapers.
00:14Valentine's Day eating newspapers?
00:16Yes, because that's where all the news is.
00:23Valentine's Day is an important day.
00:26It's always been an important day.
00:27What's the perspective for this year?
00:29We don't think this year is better than last year.
00:34We want to improve in everything.
00:37And have a good time.
00:39This year I don't think...
00:41Excuse me, my wife.
00:42I don't think I'm going to celebrate anything.
00:44Because the economic situation we're in
00:48doesn't favor us to go out
00:51or to celebrate at home.
00:54Not at all.
00:55Because the economy is very bad.
00:57I'm a young man.
00:58I have situations.
00:59I have my father in bed.
01:01Are you going to celebrate Valentine's Day?
01:03Yes.
01:04Why not?
01:06It's a primordial day in life.
01:09Once a year.
01:11Well, I'm normal.
01:12As if it were a day like any other.
01:14I don't have any kind of perspective
01:16for February 14th.
01:18And the other people,
01:19I don't know how they're going to spend it.
01:21Because this is hard.
01:22I'm going to celebrate it with my partner.
01:25How are you going to do it?
01:27Well...
01:29I'm going to make a little cake.
01:32I'm going to buy a little cake.
01:33A little gift, more or less.
01:35And spend it there.
01:36Forever.
01:38How are you going to celebrate it?
01:39Like this.
01:41With whom are you going to celebrate Valentine's Day?
01:44With my family.
01:45And a boyfriend if they show up.
01:47I have family help.
01:50Thanks to them, I'm keeping afloat.
01:53But I don't have the economic budget
01:55to...
01:57I don't know.
01:59To go out.
02:00To enjoy with my wife.
02:01Which is what I would like.
02:02I would like, I don't know.
02:04To give her life.
02:05But right now, I can't.
02:07I see that Valentine's Day
02:09is going to be like New Year's Day.
02:11Like Mother's Day.
02:13And everything.
02:14They're going to spend it with whoever they have.
02:16If not, they'll fall in love.
02:18With what? I don't know.
02:20Celebrate it with my children.
02:22It's the best love I have in my life.
02:24With my children.
02:26And the woman I love.
02:27But well.
02:28I don't have her that close to me.
02:30But I'm going to celebrate it.
02:31How are you going to do it?
02:33The way I can.
02:35Because the way we are now.
02:37We have to live the moment in any way.
02:40We don't use the gift thing anymore.
02:43This and that.
02:44And we're already in love.
02:47February 14th.
02:48Spend it regularly with your family.
02:50Not only on Valentine's Day with a partner.
02:52But with your family.
02:54With your family.
02:56Fight as much as you can.
02:58Well, possibly.
03:00A long time ago.
03:02Love in Cuba is over.
03:06Are you going to celebrate Valentine's Day?
03:08Yes, of course.
03:09What are you going to do for Valentine's Day?
03:11Well, I'm going to do for Valentine's Day.
03:13Be in love with life.
03:15With love.
03:16And with everything that can be done in this country.
03:18Because we are here for it.
03:20Sad and fucked up.
03:21And constrained.
03:25And why are you going to have a sad day?
03:27Such a glorious day.
03:29The situation right now is very difficult.
03:35Hey!
03:36We are living the crisis.
03:38What we have here is the crisis.
03:40We don't have anything here.
03:42What girlfriend?
03:43If you don't give her 10,000 or 20,000 pesos.
03:47To sleep with her for a while.
03:51And I don't want anyone.
03:53Are you going to celebrate Valentine's Day?
03:54How are you going to celebrate it?
03:56With a little wine.
03:58My family.
04:00My wife.
04:01My mother.
04:03And my brother-in-law.
04:05All the best.
04:07Everything is pure love.
04:10We are overflowing with love here in Cuba.
04:13It's the only thing we have.
04:15But here it is.
04:19The best.
04:22A bouquet of flowers.
04:24How much does it cost to be able to give it to that couple?
04:27We can't do it.
04:29There is nothing.
04:30What is there is very expensive.
04:32It is like this or it is not like this.
04:34Very few will be able to do that.
04:36To make gifts.
04:37Look at a pair of sandals.
04:39These are Dominican.
04:40How much does that cost?
04:41Here.
04:42Three or four thousand pesos.
04:44These things I would like to give them.
04:46First of all, I would like to give them another life.
04:51Another life.
04:52Fundamentally.
04:53Not the life we have.
04:55We are young.
04:56Literally.
04:57And we don't have fun.
04:59We don't have.
05:01We have to be thinking all the time about food.
05:03What are you going to eat?
05:04What is this?
05:05What is not this?
05:06What is not this other?
05:07What do you have to look for money?
05:08What is this other?
05:09And the truth is that the situation for lovers.
05:12I don't know.
05:14In general, I think it's terrible here.
05:17This year is terrible.
05:20For me, it's frustrating.
05:22It's a question that you asked me.
05:24I don't know.
05:25Because I don't even know.
05:26I don't even know.
05:27I can't buy any gifts.
05:30The biggest gift that my wife can't give me is to kiss her.
05:32And tell her that God has kept us for so many years.
05:37I think gifts are natural flowers.
05:40Because I don't even have to buy artificial flowers.
05:43Now, where am I going to buy a gift?
05:47What would you like to give her?
05:49Well, I already gave her one thing.
05:50A girl.
05:51And the other.
05:52Well, let's see what can be done.
05:54According to what I can.
05:59Is it economically enough to give her the special gift that you want to give her?
06:02Well, that would have to be seen.
06:05As God wills.
06:07Imagine how you are going to give your wife.
06:09What are you going to give your wife?
06:10When a package is worth 4,000 canes.
06:12Because what they ask for is love now.
06:14It is love that there is not.
06:16And when you are going to buy a perfume.
06:18What perfume?
06:19A flower.
06:20That is not used.
06:21It is love that we don't have here.
06:22There is no food.
06:23There is nothing.
06:24Clothes.
06:25There is nothing.
06:26What are you going to give her?
06:27A jean.
06:28How much is a jean?
06:2920,000 pesos.
06:30How much is a pair of shoes?
06:3130,000 pesos.
06:32What are you going to give her?
06:33That's it.
06:34Tell her, Mom, I love you.
06:35Even if she doesn't believe it.
06:36This is a pious lie.
06:37Even if it's a lie.
06:38Even if it's a pious lie.
06:39Because there is nothing else in real life.
06:41At the moment, the situation here in Cuba is very difficult.
06:45I can't afford to give her a gift.
06:48I can't afford to give her a gift.
06:50The lover is very hated.
06:53The situation is very serious.
06:55Even to fall in love.
06:58You can't think of making a meal to invite someone.
07:01You can't think of doing anything that is very, very eloquent.
07:07Everything that comes out is extremely expensive.
07:09You have to live the moment in any way.
07:12Will it be enough to make a detail or have a special gift with your partner?
07:18If God allows it.
07:19Because things as they are, it's just to eat and eat and eat.
07:23Detail, detail.
07:24I'm going to try to give her a flower, a rose.
07:28But I can't afford to give her what I would like to give her.
07:32I would like to give her a perfume.
07:36Expensive.
07:37That she feels that I gave her something.
07:41But she is in love.
07:43How are you?
07:44My wife likes me.
07:46She is the mother of my children.
07:47She is the one I love.
07:48She is not my wife anymore.
07:49But I would like to give her a cosmetic that is what she likes.
07:52Something more special?
07:54The affection that I have for her and my children.
07:57That's all I have.
08:00What else could I give her?
08:02I would like to give her a house.
08:04I would like to give her a castle.
08:06I would like to give her my life.
08:08And I can't.
08:09I can't because I really don't have the money for that.
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