HAVANA, Cuba. – “What are you waiting for? For my house to fall down and [el derrumbe] “Will a boy kill me?” asks Emma Gronlier Blanco, who has been waiting for a little over two years for the authorities to keep the promise of help they made her to repair her home.
According to the woman, the construction situation of her home is known to all the authorities of the municipality. Marianaowhere he resides.
“What worries me most is the bathroom because the walls are cracked and the septic tank is overflowing because of the blockage. I have gone to the Government [sede municipal del Gobierno en Marianao] “I’ve been waiting for them several times and they tell me they’re coming to my house, but nothing. Since 2022, when they said they were coming, I’ve been waiting for them,” Gronlier Blanco said ironically.
He also explained that that year a sanitation brigade supposedly carried out a repair on the pipes of the town where he lives and that, nevertheless, the problem of blockage persists.
“The hallway is still in the same condition or worse because excrement comes out of the toilet bowl; it is a source of anguish what we are experiencing here,” he lamented.
He added that the humidity has worsened and weakened the structures of his home. “My biggest fear is that we will be buried under the rubble,” he said.
Gronlier Blanco, 58, said that eight people, including four women and four children, live in the small house, which consists of a living room, bathroom, kitchen and a bedroom.
“The roof is leaking and the whole house is wet, which is why all the walls are cracked. But there are also a lot of mosquitoes and rats. It is a real hell and I am worried about the children, especially the newborns,” she said.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do or where I have to go to get help,” she said.
The woman said she is only asking the authorities to send the brigade they promised her to repair the bathroom and the walls and “prevent a disaster from happening.”
“I only ask those who may see this complaint to feel sorry, not for the adults, but for the children who are in danger because of the conditions in which they are living,” he concluded.
