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Lawmaker contrasts promised 'free' services in Cuba with poor housing and health-care conditions
Summary
Using personal photos and recollections, a member of Congress said free housing and health-care promises in Cuba did not produce adequate services, citing degraded buildings and shortages of medicines in hospitals.
During a speech, a Member of Congress displayed photos and described the building where they lived in Havana (identified in the transcript as Elificio Riomar in Miramar), using the images to argue that "free" housing in Cuba looks poor in practice.
The speaker said hospitals in Cuba are a "shambles," that medicines are lacking, and that while services are nominally free, citizens often do not receive adequate care. The member contrasted the rhetoric of guaranteed services with visible overcrowding and deterioration in housing and medical facilities.
The speaker emphasized the human cost of the political system they described, saying that while promises are made publicly, the lived reality for many Cubans includes shortages and restricted freedoms. The speech included an emotional appeal linking material conditions to political repression.
