| • Blackouts are now Cubans' top concern, surpassing the food crisis for the first time. They are followed by the cost of living (inflation), wages, and public health. • Disapproval of the government is around 92%. • Cuban CUPs trade at 24 per dollar, and 48% of households are in the 1,601–10,000 CUP income range. More than 58% of people over 70 reported that their household income is equal to or less than 4,500 CUP. Minimum wage is 2,100 CUP, and the average pension is ~1,528 CUP. |
Cuban Human Rights Observatory report on "The state of Social Rights in Cuba"
89% of Cuban families suffer from extreme poverty, and 78% want to leave or know someone who wants to leave the country.
Millions of Cubans live their lives between denial of the issues, persistent calls for resistance, and the authorities’ never-ending blaming of others due to the food crisis, the cost of living, poor wages, ineffective public health care, and constant blackouts.
There are still those who believe that Cuba is a paradise of social rights. The findings we provided in these reports since 2019 reveal a reality that is completely at contradiction with government propaganda regarding the status of social rights and disprove a political argument that justified restricting the exercise of civil rights and liberties in exchange for “social achievements” that are not visible in any neighborhood or street on the island.
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Defending Rights & Dissent joined representatives of civil society organizations from 21 North, South, and Central American countries in Bogota, Colombia, in November at the Intercontinental Summit on the Closing of Civic Space in the Americas, sponsored by Amnesty International. Defending Rights & Dissent Executive Director Sue Udry was one of three U.S. delegates invited to attend.
La reciente confirmación oficial de Habanos S.A., enviada por escrito al medio de prensa especializado Halfwheel, constituye una admisión directa que valida nuestras denuncias y refuerza la evidencia documental acumulada en las denuncias presentadas por Prisoners Defenders con su informe integral sobre trabajo forzoso en las prisiones cubanas del pasado 15 de septiembre. Habanos, SA, una empresa mixta, se hace eco de una respuesta interna que ha recibido de Tabacuba, la empresa nacional cubana que produce todos los tabacos en Cuba. Esta respuesta se produjo tras que los accionistas de Habanos SA externos a Cuba exigieron a las autoridades cubanas una explicación sobre las acusaciones de trabajo forzoso vertidas por Prisoners Defenders.