From our Annals of Apartheid Tourism Bureau with some assistance from our Bureau ot Telling It Like It Is
A tour guide let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. Yes, he told tourists something that Castro, Inc. doesn’t want them to know. He said Cubans are starving, and the food shortages are so extreme that they are now killing cats on the street and cooking up fricasé de gato or any other such dish they can manage to put together with the few ingredients available to them.
Lord have mercy. If only other Cuban tour guides could be as honest, and as courageous, who knows what kind of dent they would put in Castro, Inc.’s tourist industry. See video below. . .click on @titolibertad . . .
Loosely translated from CiberCuba
A Cuban tour guide, while leading a tour, provided a stark and candid portrayal of the harsh realities faced by the Cuban people, revealing some of the grim truths about daily life and the current situation on the island.
In a video posted on the TikTok account TitoLibertad, during a tour through the streets of Havana, the local guide shared with a couple of tourists the serious difficulties that most citizens face daily, offering an intimate and realistic perspective.
“Here, people even eat cats,” the guide stated with complete conviction, referring to the severe food shortages. “Many people now are eating the cats that are on the street; they kill them and eat them,” he added before warning that he would show them “the tourist markets, where everything is available, but you have to buy it with foreign currency.”
He continued, “You’re going to know what Cuba really is, so you won’t be lied to,” before commenting on how Cubans risk their lives attempting to reach Miami by sea, even using car tires as makeshift rafts. He also described the poor condition of buildings and the dangers faced by the families living in them.
The tour included a moment at the San Rafael Boulevard in Central Havana, where the guide pointed out a store that operates in MLC (Freely Convertible Currency).
At that moment, one of the tourists asked if everything was available in those markets, prompting the guide to explain the necessity of acquiring euros to shop there. “We have to put up with that disgrace,” he commented openly.
The video, just over a minute long, highlights the difficult circumstances the population endures and reveals details of Cuba that many tourists never get to see.
For instance, in April, the government was forced to deny information circulating online about the alleged illegal production of ground meat made from dog and cat meat.
In a note shared on its Facebook account, the Havana government stated that the news about the production of mixed ground meat with those animals was only intended to incite panic and discredit the authorities.
However, in that same month, they had to address reports circulating on social media about the slaughter of dogs to sell their meat in some areas of Mayabeque.
An official statement from the Ministry of Agriculture referred to incidents against animal welfare that occurred in the municipality of San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque, which caught the authorities’ attention due to their spread on social networks.
The government’s communication focused on condemning the “killing of dogs in that territory,” which they described as “an attack against all the norms of Health and Animal Welfare, violating the ethical and moral principles of our society.”
According to the note, “the Ministry of Agriculture strongly condemns this regrettable act and is conducting the corresponding investigations through the National Center for Animal Health (CENASA).”
They also assured that “they will apply the maximum rigor in the administrative, disciplinary, and legal sanctions that correspond to this type of incident, according to the established Animal Welfare Policy and the current legal regulations.”
Furthermore, in December 2023, Cuban animal rights activists demanded justice for the cats hunted in recent days on the island by people who claim to have already secured their “New Year’s Eve dinner.”
Amid the country’s food shortages, a Cuban displayed his hunting trophy: a white and yellow cat, which he intended to save for his New Year’s Eve dinner.
God, Cubans have become so cruel and stupid. Eating cats causes Toxoplasmosis which is an illness caused by an infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii). The parasite reproduces in the intestinal tracts of cats and in a country where there is no proper sanitation, cats keep the rat population down. Let’s see how the rat population increases now and how these morons fall ill and die from Toxoplasmosis.