Esto cada día está peor

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“Esto cada día está peor y vamos pa’ atrás” asegura Fidela Herreras Peredas, ciudadana cubana residente en el reparto “Cuba libre” en Pinar del Río. Reportaje exclusivo para ADN Cuba.

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00:00My name is Fidel Herrera Pareda. I am a Cuban citizen.

00:05I live here in Pinar del Río. I was born and raised here.

00:08I am 64 years old.

00:10Excuse me, I am 67 years old.

00:13I turned 11 in October.

00:15Well, about the blackouts, I'm going to tell you

00:19that we've been with blackouts for more than 5 months.

00:23They put us for an hour,

00:25and sometimes they put us in the middle of the night,

00:27and you can't get up at all because you're lying down.

00:30The children here are drowning in the heat.

00:33This is getting worse every day.

00:35The electricity, they haven't put it on.

00:38We've been without electricity for five whole days.

00:41We don't have gas bulbs to cook.

00:44The coal here is sold wet for 750 pesos,

00:48and that's five.

00:51So sometimes you have to cook with firewood.

00:54You have the eyes that you can't see.

00:57You're cooking with firewood.

00:59There's no food.

01:00The food, the free rice, is worth 200 pesos.

01:03That's the government that sells that.

01:09The rice, the oil, is worth 750 pesos.

01:16There are some that sell it to you for 1,000 pesos,

01:19the cooking oil.

01:22Yes.

01:29The bread?

01:30The bread here comes three days and three nights.

01:33A little piece of bread.

01:35A little piece of bread that a child eats,

01:37and he stays hungry.

01:38A child.

01:39A one-year-old child eats that bread,

01:41and he stays hungry.

01:43This here is getting worse every day,

01:45and we're going backwards.

01:47It's backwards and backwards and backwards.

01:50And they don't do anything.

01:52They don't do anything, and they don't solve anything.

01:55So it's the same trick all their lives.

01:58Have the people been informed about the monitoring of these blackouts?

02:04I don't know, because I can tell you that I'm a traitor,

02:07but I don't see anything.

02:09Because why would you be a traitor

02:11if what they put in you is lies and more lies?

02:13And everything is a lie.

02:14Everything is a lie.

02:16The drugs, Fidelio?

02:17The drugs, what drugs?

02:19There are children who are sick,

02:21and they don't have any medication to take.

02:24No medication.

02:25The child from my house, the grandson,

02:27is sick, he's seven years old.

02:29He doesn't have milk to go to school.

02:31It's been more than 15 days since they haven't gone to school

02:34because they don't have electricity.

02:36So since there's no electricity,

02:38the information they get is that there's no class.

02:41That's not all.

02:43Another thing.

02:44Food doesn't work.

02:46If you go to a hospital and you break your foot,

02:49or a hand,

02:50they tie you up in a strap,

02:52or the foot,

02:53and it's hard for me to rest because there's no plaster,

02:56there's nothing.

02:57There's no duragina to put you in a headache.

03:00It gets worse every day.

03:02People on the 11th of November,

03:05of July,

03:06of July,

03:07they've all died because they're in jail.

03:10And so, you have to come out here,

03:12and they catch you in a cage,

03:14and they put you in jail.

03:16There are two of those,

03:18in jail on the 11th.

03:19A repressive state.

03:20Yes.

03:21A state.

03:22This is more than a repressive state.

03:24This isn't called a repressive state.

03:25This happened because of the repressives.

03:27Because everyone you can catch,

03:30if you give them a stick,

03:31they give you a stick.

03:33They give you a stick,

03:34so they don't just give you one,

03:35they give you a stack.

03:37That man,

03:38whose name is Omar,

03:41Omar was caught inside the house,

03:43they beat him up,

03:44they broke his head,

03:45they broke his ribs,

03:47they hit him in the head.

03:49This is getting worse every day.

03:51What can I say?

03:53So this,

03:54it's not going forward,

03:56but it's going backwards,

03:57and it can go wherever it wants.

03:59There's no food for the kids here.

04:01There's no milk for the kids.

04:03There's nothing for the kids.

04:05There's a government incapacity

04:07to get the people out of the crisis

04:08they're going through.

04:09There's nothing here

04:10to get anyone out.

04:12This is going backwards every day.

04:14It's getting worse.

04:15Thank you very much, ma'am.

04:17This has been for you,

04:18the press correspondent,

04:20Julio Cesar Gongor-Amelio,

04:22and here, Omar Suarez Campos,

04:24for ADN Cuba,

04:25from the city of Pinar del Río.

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