Cuban minister resigns after he said: “There are no beggars in Cuba”

Cuban Minister of Labor and Social Security Martha Elena Fyta-Kabar was forced to leave the post after she expressed comments in the parliamentary session, which denied the existence of beggars on the island guided by the communists.

The minister stated that there was no such thing as “beggars” in Cuba, and people who are going through the garbage were, in fact, doing it in the choice to earn “simple money” as it put it.

Her comments were widely criticized by the Cubans at home and abroad, and pushed Miguel Diaz-Kanel’s President’s response. She soon resigned.

Poverty level and food deficit have deteriorated in Cuba as it continues to fight the severe economic crisis.

Feitó-Cabrara expressed comments earlier this week at the National Assembly session, at which she talked about people asking and sounded through garbage in Cuba.

She seems to have denied her existence, saying, “There are no beggars in Cuba. There are people who pretend to make light money.”

In addition, she accused people looking for garbage of “illegal processing service”.

The minister clearly evaluated the indignation and anger that her comments and the degree in which they reflected the country’s leadership as a bad, authoritarian and deeply disabled from the terrible economic struggle of ordinary Cubans.

A number of Cuban activists and intellectuals published a letter calling for it to be removed, saying that the comments were “insulting the Cuban people”.

Then the President of Cuba criticized the fite -kabar at the parliamentary session – though not mentioning it by name – saying that the leadership could not “act with indulgence” or be “disabled by the realities” of people.

Cuban economist Pedro Montreal posted on X, saying that there were “people who changed the ministers” in Cuba. “

The resignation of the Faite Kabar was adopted by the Cuban Communist Party and the government.

While the Cuban government does not publish official data on the number of people who ask, the growth of their number was obvious to most Cubans against the background of the deep economic crisis.