Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, founder of the Cuba’s National Patriotic Union (UNPACU) opposition group, speaks with Reuters during an interview at his home in Santiago, Cuba April 8, 2025. REUTERS/Norlys Perez
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (Reuters) - Jose Daniel Ferrer stepped onto his front porch in Santiago de Cuba on a recent morning, 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.
