“We’ve seen people who appear to be beggars,” Feitó told the commission. “When you look at their hands, at the clothes these people are wearing, they’re disguised as beggars; they’re not beggars. There are no beggars in Cuba.”

Cuba's labor minister denied there are beggars in the poor, Communist-run country in official testimony, prompting rare criticism by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel of one of his own ministers on Tuesday.