This article, published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government, reports on the response by Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s president, to controversial remarks a day earlier by the country’s Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera. On July 14, Feitó Cabrera told Cuba’s parliament that there are no beggars in Cuba, that the island’s beggars are faking poverty in search of easy money, and that those cleaning windshields on the streets or collecting rubbish from trash bins are actually collecting raw materials without paying taxes. Her televised remarks went viral on social media, causing an uproar by the public and government officials alike. Feitó Cabrera resigned her post on July 15.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33764798

July 20, 2025

[translation of an article published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government.]

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    15 days ago

    “Fidel always defended the idea that the issue wasn’t economic growth; any society, any country, can have economic growth, and in Cuba, economic growth must be linked to social development; otherwise, economic growth makes no sense to us,” he said, which “has a lot to do with how we socially redistribute the wealth we all create.”

    no. NO. That’s now how anything works. Money first, then redistribution.

    I fucking hate commies. It’s like they are willfully ignorant of how any of this works.

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        Yes? About what?

        edit: oh, I see. The proverbial, “and then?” from improv class.

        Can you explain how a command economy serves anything but a military dictatorship?

        I have blocked a lot of communists on Lemmy, so maybe there are some comments I am ignoring.