El Centro de Protección Social de Las Guásimas, en el municipio Cotorro, de La Habana es como un campo de concentración, denuncia el ciudadano Luis Antonio Cedeño, un cubano que vive en la calle. Cedeño asegura que en la entidad, perteneciente al Ministerio de Salud Pública, maltratan a las personas vulnerables y las usan para tomar sus datos y “justificar el robo”.
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00:00 The reality of the adult population when we come to the streets and they report us, then how the regime, how the repression goes up. I explain to you, sir.
00:13 I am practically scared by a guagua or two or three guaguas that pass by here, supposedly picking up those who are walking on the street. But when they take you there, they have no conditions at all.
00:30 The lunch is terrible, the little they give. I'll explain a little more. We are full of chinchas. If they catch you at night, you sleep in a portal, you have no bed.
00:43 And then what I do is sell nonsense. I don't steal, they don't catch the thieves, they catch the poor who are on the street, like me, who have no home.
00:54 So I feel quite uncomfortable about that. And I wish that, I don't know, one day there was a change. Here we have a corner that is a garbage dump.
01:05 A garbage dump that takes half a block. There is no oil, supposedly, to collect the garbage. So, this is incredible, what is happening here.
01:17 And I would like them to be a concentration camp, not a camp. It's a business. That's what I'm going to tell you.
01:27 It's a business that is justified. For example, they pick me up. And they, with my data, benefit from the goods that the state supposedly passes to them.
01:38 Soap, clothes, equipment, all that, to cover that part. And then they take you, and if they don't take you, they take you. That's the Cuban state.
01:55 Where do they take you? To what camp?
01:57 To a camp, which is a center. There are crazy people in sneakers, there are pigs that give pain, and nobody is interested in that.
02:06 And when they let you go, if you don't have money, you have to come on foot from the Guasima to Havana.
02:12 In what direction is the Guasima?
02:13 The Guasima, where does that belong, Juan?
02:16 To the Globe.
02:17 To the Globe. That's after the train. After the train. The closest place to the Guasima, you have to walk four stops, kilometrically, on foot, to get to the train if you have money.
02:33 To take a P6, a P8, and then get to Havana.
02:37 And come here, I want to ask you a question. Where do you work?
02:41 I sell things that they bring me to sell. Because I fell from a second floor, I have the Asian nerve screwed up, and I'm hypertensive.
02:51 And then, there's no medicine. I eat a lemon, when I find it, to dominate the pressure.
03:00 Ah, it's how you control your state.
03:03 I eat a lemon, I buy a lemon, and that's it.
03:06 So the guagua comes and takes you at any time?
03:08 At any time. For example, it passes at 11 or 12 in the morning, and then it comes back at night.
03:15 Yes.
03:16 There are three guaguas. The number of the guagua is 30... I'll write down the number of the guagua.
03:26 Yes, and come here, I want to ask you a question. Do they give you a fine?
03:30 Nothing. They give you a potato, a little white rice, and a chicharro. And they let you go.
03:38 It's taking your assets to justify the robbery they're committing.
03:43 So, what they donate to you, they distribute it to them.
03:48 Yes. It's a report for ADN Cuba, so the whole world can see the reality of what's happening in Havana.
03:53 That's a business that has...
03:54 With the adults, with the mentally ill, with those who are...
03:57 With the sick?
03:58 With all the sick, with everyone. Look, in families, reporting for ADN Cuba, what's your name?
04:03 Luis Antonio Cedeños Núñez.
04:05 Luis Antonio Cedeños Núñez.
04:06 Yes.
04:07 Where do you live?
04:08 On the street.
04:09 What do you mean, on the street?
04:10 On the street. I don't have a house. For example, I can stay in the Fede Valle Park, in the Curita Park, in Los Picodos here, in San José.
04:21 And at 5 in the morning, they kick us out, and then they throw water so we can't sleep, because we're bothering them.
04:31 And, for the food, I go to the tanks, and when I see good things, I eat them, because hunger can't kill me.
04:41 Right now, I have a bag of chocolate cream. I found it in the tank, and I took it to survive.
04:51 And where do you shower?
04:53 In the house of a Cuban friend of mine, he's in the house. If not, I spend a week, two weeks, without showering.
05:01 Occasions when I do it, for example, I washed it in his house, and I showered.
05:11 Today, he has to do a job with a friend who's in the hospital, and I don't know if he sees it or not.
05:17 But, for example, a week without showering. When I need to go to the bathroom, I go to a tank with a cardboard,
05:26 so the population doesn't see my need, and I continue.
05:32 And to eat, how do you eat?
05:34 I go to the tanks, and I look for the tanks.
05:36 You never eat kitchen food?
05:38 The one I find in the java.
05:40 Wow, so everything is by luck and truth.
05:42 By luck and truth.
05:44 And you?
05:45 When I make my money, I do eat a few minutes of fish, I drink a shake in the Chinese neighborhood, and those things.
05:53 And you have told the neighbors that you have turned off the tanks' lights, on occasions when they have given you a light.
05:58 I have witnesses here. I have even turned off two lights.
06:01 One I burned with a java to hide, and the other I got a bucket of water and I managed to solve the situation.
06:09 But the people of the Aguagua don't see any of that.
06:16 They should be able to justify the theft. That's the situation.
06:20 Thank you very much. Reporting for ADN Cuba, Carlos Milanés, Luceso, Argongo.
06:24 Thank you.
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