Members of Cuba’s revolutionary generation feel abandoned by the society they created

Older Cubans are struggling to make ends meet on tiny pensions as the country pivots towards private enterprise

Ruaridh Nicoll and Eileen Sosin in Havana

In central Havana, Martha Ortega has been queueing for mince. She has both osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis causing her foot to drag, but she remains stylish, a checked shirt and denim handbag giving her the air of an 80-year-old cowgirl.

Until five years ago, Ortega was a receptionist in a local office of the Communist party of Cuba. Her pension is 1,575 pesos a month, but in the last three years, inflation has reduced its value to less than $5. “I try to spread it between food, medicines, whatever I can,” she says.

She is one of many old people in Cuba who has found herself all but destitute as the communist state, struggling with a profound economic crisis, pivots towards private enterprise. Ortega lives with her daughter, who is deaf and mute. They are alone. There is no other family to help….

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/13/cuba-revolutionary-generation-old-age

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