No hay Reyes Magos para mis hijos

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No hay Reyes Magos para mis hijos 🇨🇺 Dianelis Álvarez, madre cubana residente en San Juan y Martínez, Pinar del Río, denuncia que este año no podrá comprar regalos para sus hijos en el Día de Reyes. 💬 “Mi salario apenas alcanza para comer”, afirma Álvarez, quien recuerda que antes esta fecha era motivo de celebración, pero hoy los juguetes tienen precios inaccesibles para los cubanos de a pie. 😞 #SOSCuba 🇨🇺 #CubaEnCrisis #ReyesMagosSinRegalos #CubaEsUnaDictadura #DenunciaCiudadana #ADNCuba

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00:00Good evening.

00:02Good evening.

00:04What is your name?

00:06Yaneli Alvarez.

00:08Yaneli, I'm going to ask you a question.

00:10Will your family's children receive any gifts on the Day of the Wise Men?

00:13No.

00:15Why?

00:17Because there are no conditions for them to receive a gift.

00:21The salary that I earn is not enough for me to eat.

00:27I don't have enough money to buy them a gift,

00:31regardless of the fact that here in Cuba toys are very expensive and scarce,

00:35because there are none.

00:37And so, I don't have the conditions to buy them,

00:40neither the boy nor the girl, a gift.

00:44The Day of the Wise Men is going to be like any other day.

00:47Because in other years it was celebrated,

00:51because there were toys in the eighties,

00:56in the seventies,

00:58because my parents used to tell me stories,

01:00but the problem is that now there are no conditions,

01:02and there are practically no toys in the stores.

01:04And where there are,

01:06our salary is not enough to buy a toy.

01:10Because, apart from the fact that the salary is very low,

01:14what we have is to eat and to cover the expenses necessary.

01:19So, the currency with which you are going,

01:24in this case, the Cuban currency,

01:26is not enough for those toys.

01:29No, because we are paid in Cuban currency,

01:34and then the toys are in the MLC stores.

01:39There are few people who can afford that.

01:42One dollar here is expensive.

01:44We cannot get the salary,

01:46because the salary that we are paid does not cover the needs.

01:50If we get it and practically a toy costs,

01:53our salary,

01:55the minimum salary that a worker here,

01:57in any work center, is paid.

01:59If we buy a toy,

02:01we spend the whole month without eating,

02:03and it is a toy.

02:05Cuban mothers mostly have two and three children.

02:07Imagine buying a toy for each child.

02:09A doll that comes out,

02:11five thousand pesos,

02:13more than five thousand pesos for a girl,

02:15which is what a girl would like the most, a doll.

02:17A boy would like a cart.

02:19But our salary does not cover those expenses,

02:21nor those needs.

02:23One more question, Janely.

02:25Will you have a celebration at your house

02:27that day of the Magi?

02:29What else would I want

02:31than to buy him a toy,

02:33buy him some candy,

02:35invite his friends,

02:37and spend a day and make it like a birthday.

02:39But you can't,

02:41because with what?

02:43That day I am not going to mention anything to my children,

02:45although they are already grown up

02:47and they will find out,

02:49but I don't know.

02:51I don't even know

02:53what I'm going to trick them with,

02:55even if it's with some candy,

02:57so that they don't feel

02:59less than anyone else,

03:01and put some candy on them

03:03to cover the lack.

03:05Because they don't understand,

03:07this explanation I'm giving,

03:09they don't understand it.

03:11They think, I don't know,

03:13that it's true that the Magi exist,

03:15that they come, that they are going to bring them,

03:17that you have to do

03:19to get there and buy them.

03:21And I can't explain to them

03:23that the salary I earn is not for that,

03:25because they are not going to understand that part.

03:27As children, anyway.

03:29Thank you very much.

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