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¿Por qué quiero vender mi riñón?
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12/11/2023
¿Por qué quiero vender mi riñón?
Una madre cubana identificada como Marelis asegura que vendería su riñón para comprar una casa para su familia y explica por qué ha tomado esta decisión.
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00:00
I'm Marei, I'm the girl who sold her kidney or changed it for a house.
00:06
I posted it on several Facebook groups.
00:09
Let me explain this quickly.
00:12
I posted it because I'm tired, because they haven't given me a concrete answer
00:20
on how long it will take, when, how they will do it,
00:23
to give us the house that they told us they were going to give us.
00:28
And that every time I go to the government, to housing, to the shelter, to social work,
00:34
to the council of ministers, everywhere, it's just a constant fight, another constant fight.
00:39
This place where I'm living is full of rats, full of cockroaches.
00:43
There are holes with... that have feces, thank God this hole doesn't have it.
00:48
Ehh, cockroaches, bugs, whatever you can imagine.
00:51
These are the mounds, in the port there are usually almost always rats.
00:54
So I couldn't take it anymore.
00:58
Many people think it was a state of despair, but I tell you that if someone really shows up
01:04
and can be donated in exchange for money or a house, I would do it.
01:10
I would do it for my children, and I know that many women would also be willing to do it.
01:16
Have you received an exact answer from the government on how long you will be here in this place?
01:22
No, they haven't answered us because they say that every day the cases increase,
01:27
and I'm not the only woman with three children,
01:31
I'm not the only person who is damaged in Havana.
01:34
Imagine, this part of here is falling apart completely,
01:38
every day there are landslides, and every day women continue to give birth.
01:42
And then they just tell you no.
01:46
There are many people who are in worse conditions than you,
01:49
and you have to wait, you just have to wait.
01:52
I went to the shelter when I was pregnant with the mercy of humans.
01:57
That's what you have to do.
01:59
So the shelter suggested that you go to social media to ask for help,
02:05
to ask for help so that someone can take care of you
02:09
and can help you solve the situation you are presenting with your children.
02:13
Well, two years ago when I was pregnant and went to the shelter, that's what they told me.
02:18
There were many cases, the same and worse, even similar to mine,
02:22
and what I could do was turn to the mercy of humans because there was no shelter in any place.
02:27
And well, today I'm here in this shelter, and thank God I have a roof.
02:32
And it was because I had to go to the square,
02:35
because I had to go and stand there with my children,
02:39
and after a few attempts, I was arrested twice,
02:44
and they took me to Zapati C, and once I was pregnant,
02:48
because I slept there the second time with the girls,
02:50
what they did was take me to maternity line in Vergada,
02:53
and from maternity line they brought me here.
02:56
That's what happened, and that was the solution they gave to my problem.
03:02
So when you go, this is the answer they give you.
03:05
They just don't know how long you're going to be here, or how long you can be here.
03:10
They also told me that as soon as you leave, they're going to think about me, they're going to think about my child.
03:16
Lies. There are thousands of constructions that are being built here, in other places,
03:21
and when you really go to complain, to ask, to do anything,
03:28
they tell you that there are people who are before you, in worse conditions than you,
03:32
and that supposed help that all mothers are given with three children, that's a lie.
03:36
That supposed priority that all mothers are given with three children, or more than three children,
03:40
that there are many who are going through the same, even worse, work than mine, is a lie.
03:46
Everything is a lie and everything is a deception.
03:49
Everything is a scam, and everything is a benefit for the people who expose themselves in the institutions
03:54
to give answers to the people, and they don't give them quick answers, with appointments or direct ones.
03:59
Everything is a manipulation.
04:00
No, another thing, they give me an economic aid of three thousand pesos.
04:04
Of three thousand pesos they give me an economic aid for my children.
04:08
I don't work, I was studying, I finished my high school,
04:13
thank God I have my 12th grade, and I'm trying, if God allows, to start studying nutrition.
04:20
And then, that's the economic aid they give me.
04:24
They constantly threaten me with taking it away from me,
04:27
if I don't continue studying or my husband doesn't start working.
04:34
I'll explain something else to you.
04:36
My husband is the one who looks for things for this house.
04:40
Currently, in a job that you work for the state, they pay you from two thousand to three thousand and a bit of pesos.
04:46
It's not enough for you at all.
04:49
In a package of chicken, you lose your salary.
04:51
In a bag of milk, you lose your salary.
04:54
In the streets, you're trying to solve more problems than working day by day.
04:59
So, constantly, it's happening.
05:03
Have you already acquired the milk from the children who are given here at this base?
05:06
No, we haven't been able to get the milk from Day One yet.
05:09
The children are drinking milk, but it's not from Day One, because it hasn't arrived yet.
05:14
We're already at six, and the milk from Day One is still not there.
05:17
The children, at least, I don't know about other municipalities,
05:20
but the children here in Havana, the milk hasn't arrived yet.
05:23
The family already has cockroaches here.
05:26
Look how the cockroaches come to invade the house.
05:30
You can see, family, that the house is full of cockroaches.
05:34
You can see the living conditions that the roof has.
05:36
Does the roof get wet?
05:37
Yes, of course.
05:38
And all that you see there, all that part there, are electricity cables.
05:42
There have been electric fires here because of the changes?
05:45
I couldn't tell you, because I've been here for two years.
05:48
Look, family.
05:49
Everything has cockroaches.
05:51
We have things inside, the things that the children, if you can see.
05:56
Yes, I can see that everything is packed, nailed.
05:59
Nailed and wrapped.
06:00
And we have it inside a trunk, but I can show you this.
06:03
Do you have sick children?
06:05
Some of your children are sick?
06:07
Yes, let's see, one of the girls doesn't have an iron,
06:10
and the other has a small malformation in her heart.
06:13
And even so, they don't prioritize you.
06:15
I'm going to show you this, so you can see.
06:17
Where one puts the clothes, they put it wherever they want.
06:20
Look, family.
06:21
So you can see, this is here.
06:23
Look, family.
06:25
Look.
06:26
Look at the cockroaches, family.
06:28
This is shaken practically every day.
06:31
And if you move all this,
06:33
and if you take out the clothes...
06:34
No organization or institute comes to fumigate the cockroaches or rats.
06:38
Many times they come to fumigate,
06:41
but it is the fumigation that brings what makes you take out the cockroaches the most.
06:44
That doesn't eliminate them, what makes you take them out the most.
06:47
Also, this is a wall, the plaster, it calls all that.
06:51
And the rats eat the plaster and put it inside you.
06:55
You see the situation that has led the girl to want to sell her kidney in exchange for a house,
07:02
or someone who provides her with the conditions of human life,
07:07
not infrahuman, not conditions of life that are really obsolete.
07:12
There is no bathroom, gentlemen.
07:13
That's another thing.
07:14
There is no bathroom here.
07:15
Here we have to bathe in a pool and poop in Cuba and throw it into the bay.
07:19
We don't have a bathroom because the bathrooms that the government has assigned us are clogged,
07:24
full of rats, full of worms, cockroaches, shit, intima, whatever.
07:28
We have been here for two years and we have not been able to use a bathroom.
07:31
Reporting for ADN Cuba, Carlos Milané, Curiosidad Algonquin.
07:36
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