Poverty In Cuba

Poverty affects more than half of the men, women, and children on Earth. That means than more than three billion people make less than $2.50 every day. There are multitudes of conditions that affect the different poverty rates in certain countries. Dario Berrebi (2012), in “ Extreme Poverty in Cuba: Welfare in a Broke Country,” and Scott Beyer (2015), in “ A Look at How Cuba’s Working Class Lives,” both talk about the intense levels of poverty in Cuba. Dario Berrebi’s article was published by Poverties and Scott Beyer’s article was published by the National Review. Beyer’s article which uses logos and pathos to portray his own personal experience of the poverty in Cuba, making it a stronger article compared to Berrebi’s article which uses

While both authors use pathos, Beyers use shows more of that emotion. He uses his own personal experience in Cuba to show how rough it is to live there. He traveled to Cuba and spent a day learning about the life of a government translator named Indira. An example of Scott Beyer’s use of pathos in “A Look at How Cuba’s Working Class Lives,”(2015) “ The apartment suffered from various malfunctions. While tourist brochures advertise Cuba’s clean drinking water, the people consider it dirty and buy bottled water despite their budget constraints. Indira’s family also didn’t have access to hot water, and the bathroom shower spigot didn’t work, so the family took scrub baths. The toilet didn’t have a seat cover, and because it didn’t flush properly, they would dump buckets of water into it after using it.” (para. 13). He is using pathos by explain, in depth, the appalling conditions that they have to live. Berrebi sticks to a more logos style, but uses some pathos. Cubans are starting to come out of poverty little by little, but have began to become more unhealthy. Obesity has began to be on the rise as well as heavy smoking. With these two things risking the health of everyone it affects, health care is not going to be free anymore. With the already low wages, Cubans are not going to be able to afford to stay healthy, which can bring about more