SLP, Mexico.- Just a few weeks after the Hurricane Oscar hit the east of the country, Guantanamo residents reported that they have not yet received the help they need to repair the damage caused in 2016 by Matthew.
According to a report in the local media SolvisionEight years after the meteorological phenomenon passed through Cuba, the regime has delivered cardboard to the municipality of Maisí to cover the roofs of their houses.
A resident in that territory He told the press that with this cover his house continues to be exposed to meteorological phenomena and he has not obtained more from the government.
“What they give me is a cardboard roof. In eight years, what can one do with a cardboard roof? And then now, I see that they don’t give me one answer like the one I need. And they have me there, I bought expensive tiles, because they haven’t given me anything,” the man told the communicator of Solvision.
Cyclone Oscar also knocked down the fragile roof that he had put up. “I have three little tiles covering the room.”
Another Cuban reported that Matthew collapsed her entire house and the authorities only gave her “an awning and a roll of cardboard.”
His solution was to get some materials to live in his home. “We patched a little piece there to get into, with pieces of tile. And now they gave me an awning,” said the woman, who added in her speech that her house remains destroyed.
According to the authorities, there are still 407 total collapses in the area due to the 2016 event and those who lived in those homes are now in “temporary facilities.”
To the landslides Due to this hurricane, more than 900 homes were affected in Maisí by the passage of Oscar. Currently, priority is given to the delivery of resources to homes with partial damage to their roofs and with nuclei with several minors and the elderly.
The victims, despite having lost everything, will not get the materials to rebuild their roofs for free. The regime, extolling that it established “payment facilities” in three modalities for those who require products, will charge Cubans to redo their houses.
Some people will be subsidized by the State, and will have to pay a part of the cost; Others must opt for a bank loan that they will pay gradually, and the rest will pay in cash.
Cement, tiles, zinc sheets are not the only things that are sold. The Castro regime recognized that it also sells donations made by governments and international organizations to Cubans affected in Guantanamo.
“From the aid received by the country, 10,287 mattresses arrived in the province for those affected by Hurricane Oscar, in the municipalities of San Antonio del Sur, Imías, Baracoa and Maisí, which are sold through the domestic retail network” , reviewed the state newspaper we will win.
The mattresses are sold to the most affected cases with the authorization of the Municipal Defense Councils, the report states.
The regime tries to clean up its image in the sales process through what it describes as a “bonus” of 50% of the value of the items and 100% coverage of 501 of them destined for social assistance.
Mattress prices range between 735 and 1,865 pesos depending on their characteristics. Of the total donations, the regime’s Defense Council decided to deliver 4,326 to the municipality of San Antonio del Sur, the territory most affected by the floods.
