{"id":236306,"date":"2021-03-19T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=236306"},"modified":"2021-03-19T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:04:13","slug":"afro-descendant-women-in-cuba-and-the-task-of-reorganization-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/afro-descendant-women-in-cuba-and-the-task-of-reorganization-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-descendant women in Cuba and the Task of Reorganization (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afro-descendant women make up one of the vulnerable population sectors in Cuba. If we understand poverty as a \u201c<\/span>situation generated in part by the lack of productive assets or inability to efficiently use those they<\/span><\/a> have<\/span>\u201c and vulnerability as a \u201c<\/span>situation characterized by the susceptibility to suffer some damage or harm given the reduced capacity to adjust or adapt to certain circumstances<\/span><\/a>,\u201d we can say that this population group <\/span>has reached the crisis<\/span><\/a> caused by <\/span>COVID-19<\/span><\/a> in a situation of impoverishment and with gaps that respond, fundamentally, to sex, gender, and race.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pandemic does not discriminate; inequalities do: women cushioning the crisis<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n