The students of the Sports Initiation School (EIDE) Captain Orestes Acosta in Santiago de Cuba They have reported that the food they receive at that school, both at lunch and dinner, always consists of rice and peas.
The communicator Yosmany Mayeta expressed his solidarity with the request of the students, who requested that he make public the precarious nutritional situation that they are currently facing.
The EIDE is located in the El Caney Popular Council, at some distance from the historic center of the city, and to get there it is necessary to use “a road with little traffic,” said Mayeta, stressing that for parents it is difficult to bring regular food to your children.
CyberCuba contacted some people in Santiago de Cuba, who confirmed that not only is poor food a constant, but they also argued that the precarious transport situation It makes it even more difficult to visit your children and bring them food.
They noted that, on the other hand, those who can afford a motor, a fairly popular form of transportation in the city, must shell out between 300 and 500 pesos per tripdepending on the time and day.
Finally, concerned parents emphasized that walking is quite dangerous, since in some sections the journey is very lonely, thus exposing themselves to being victims of robberies and assaults.
This complaint contradicts the official propaganda that boasted about a broad construction movement in this facility, as well as improvements in living conditions, on the occasion of the closing of the 60 National School Games at the EIDE.
The Cuban regime has demonstrated not only its inability to resolve the economic crisisbut also to provide decent conditions to scholarship students in various educational centers or to inmates in penitentiary institutions.
Living conditions inside Cuban prisons have worsened alarminglydue to the lack of adequate food, shortage of medicines, deficiencies in hygiene products and unacceptable general conditions, according to reports from inmates and their families.
Activist Ania Zamora, mother of Sissi Abascal, a 26-year-old political prisoner sentenced to six years in prison for participating in protests in July 2021, told the outlet Martí News that the crisis affects the inmates and their families, who “have to bring them everything.”
