INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Cuban Minister for Labour and Social Security, Marta Elena Feit-Cabrera, has been required to resign from her post after she made comments
in a parliamentary session which denied the presence of beggars on the Communist-run island.The minister had stated there was no such thing
as beggars in Cuba and individuals going through rubbish were, in essence, doing so out of choice to facilitate cash, as she put it.Her
remarks were commonly criticised by Cubans in the house and abroad, and prompted a response from the islands president, Miguel Daz-Canel
She resigned soon after.Poverty levels and food lacks have actually aggravated in Cuba as it continues to come to grips with a severe
financial crisis.Feit-Cabrera made the comments previously this week at a session of the National Assembly, in which she spoke about people
asking and searching through dustbins in Cuba.She appeared to reject their presence stating: There are no beggars in Cuba
There are people pretending to be beggars to facilitate money.Furthermore, she implicated people exploring the rubbish of being unlawful
individuals in the recycling service.The minister plainly misjudged the outrage and anger her comments would trigger and the extent to which
they portrayed the nations management as unfeeling, authoritarian and deeply detached from the alarming economic struggles of common
Cubans.A variety of Cuban activists and intellectuals released a letter calling for her elimination saying the comments were an insult to
the Cuban people.The Cuban president then criticised Feit-Cabrera at the parliamentary session - albeit without discussing her by name -
stating the management could not act with condescension or be disconnected from the truths of the people.Cuban economist Pedro Monreal
posted on X stating that there were individuals camouflaged as ministers in Cuba.Feit-Cabreras resignation was accepted by the Cuban
Communist Party and the government.While the Cuban federal government does not publish main figures on the number of individuals asking, the
rise in their number has actually been self-evident to many Cubans amidst the islands deep economic crisis.Source: BBC-- Agencies
