Workers preparing food rations in the back patio of Ferrer’s (below) home in Santiago, Cuba. — Reuters
JOSE Daniel Ferrer stepped onto his front porch in Santiago de Cuba, on Cuba’s southern coast, shaking hands and asking after people’s health as he greeted a small crowd of the ailing and elderly gathered at his doorstep.
Inside, he, his wife Nelva Ismarays Ortega, and a staff of around a dozen dispensed steaming rations of boiled potato, yucca, pumpkin, chicken, rice and spaghetti cooked in steel cauldrons over an open fire on their back patio.
