I'm John Batch with my good colleagues, Ernesto Arucio and Joseph Omar, a new world report.

This is a sad story about where we are in the 21st century.

The Cuban people are desperate.

They are extremely poor.

The average income and a month of working in Cuba's 17 American dollars, that's equivalent,

17 dollars.

And now this Cuban-seemed Sir Cervantes has bought a new sewing machine for the first

time in years, plus a refrigerator in his cell phone.

She set her 49-year-old husband, and reek a gun solace, a struggling bricklayer earning

$17 a month, left their home in the small town of La Fadaral in mid-July to fight for

the Russian Army in Ukraine.

These later, he wired her part of his signing on bonus of about 200,000 rubles, which translates

into $2,040, which she received in Cuban pesos.

Joseph, I come to you because this is Russia in the Americas.

Yes, it's Cuba.

Yes, Cuba is a client state of Moscow, but you tell me that Moscow is increasingly attractive

to parts of South America.

But at the same time, that $2,000 is blood money.

We know that.

Ukraine is a meat grinder, and I wish Mr. Gonzalez Welles a very brave person, but it sounds

like he's trading the risk of his life for $2,000.

Where is Russia's, in the opinion of all of the Americas, Joseph, in particular countries

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