MIAMI, United States. – The complaint of a young Cuban professor, who published the photo of his university degree inside a cauldron of white rice to protest against lack of foodhigh food prices and low wages, has gone viral this Sunday.
Austin Llerandi Perez wrote on his Facebook profile: “The day has come: I have nothing to cook except white rice. No money to buy food, either.”
“Only [tengo] this rice that you see in the photo, and my university degree”, he insisted later.
In the post, which had been shared almost 800 times as of 5:00 p.m. this Sunday, he asks his followers not to misunderstand him. “This post is not to ask for help, nor do I want them to start with solidarity, neither here, nor privately. Excuse the harsh tone, thank you very much. But I won’t accept it. I have always known how to create my own problems, alone, and also solve them, alone”.
He also said that his university degree as a teacher was earned by studying for several years. “I never committed fraud, nor did I sleep with any teacher for a grade. I am a university student. I currently work as a teacher”, specified Llerandi Pérez.
In the post he also referred to the “inclementities” suffered in Cuba by “someone prepared, who masters two languages perfectly and reads four, who can do manual work to repair computers, which in the field of Humanities can do almost any job, and also go to a port to stow. In a country where a person like that (it’s me, my CV is publicly available) is hungry, something is wrong, “he said.
“Don’t tell me that the rice was sent to me by the CIA. I have no criminal record. No one finances me. I am not discrediting the Government. The reality is objective: today I am going to have lunch and eat white rice. And I pray that the white rice will last a long time, given that it is almost two weeks before my bill,” he added.
Finally, he said that his post was “just the delusion of a hungry and jaded man, who does not want help, because he prefers to deal with his hunger alone than to live on human charity. It’s not arrogance, it’s not delusions of superiority, none of that… it’s principles.”
“No working Cuban, like me, should be begging for food, or anything else,” he asserted.
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