“Mothers with children closed” after “after” more than five days without water “, according to reports on social networks.
Miami, United States. – On the morning of this Monday a protest occurred for lack of water on Monte Street, in Centro Habana, according to reports and complaints published by activists and media in social networks.
Facebook page Diaz Canel Without Gao reported That mothers with children participated in the demonstration, while the Cántalo TV channel indicated that the daughter of the Cuban activist exiled in the United States Ariadna Mena Rubio, “Anglada Mena – was” surrounded “after demonstrating. Later, at 12:43 pm, Mena Rubio herself transmitted a direct On the Cántoo TV page, in which he extended his complaints.
According to Diaz Canel Without Gaoin Monte “Mothers with children closed the street” after “more than five days without water” and that “the officers tried to use the force, but the people interceded.”
For its part, Cántalo TV asked to make visible the situation of Anglada Mena’s daughter: “At the moment [9:36 a.m.]the daughter of activist Ariadna Mena Rubio is surrounded after starring in a brave protest today on Monte Street. “The channel added:” Let’s share this message so that they do not leave her alone. She is facing the Cuban dictatorship for her rights and needs the world to see what is happening. ”
In Your directpublished at 12:43 pm on the Cántoo TV page, Mena Rubio denounced that her daughter had been without water for more than two weeks: “My daughter has been without water for 15 days, you know the problem (…) that there is in Havana, the fact that the dictatorship is causing in Cuba, because in the Cayo de Santa María there are parties, there are grapes, there are water, there is food and there is everything.
Mena Rubio held local authorities responsible for the lack of solution and criticized the delegate of her daughter’s constituency (she identified the official as Madeline Ramírez).
The activist called for citizen mobilization: “What is needed is that the entire people have just aware that silent and enduring nothing is resolved.” In another passage he said: “[Las autoridades del régimen] They cannot suppress everyone. “And he asked:” How long is the Cuban endure? “
Mena also described scenes of families looking for water on Havana coast: “Tremendous lack of respect. They are loading water from the boardwalk.”
According to A report from mid -September of the Caribbean Channel (state)water scarcity especially affects the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Guantanamo and Ciego de Ávila. Meanwhile, Havana, Sancti spíritus and the tunas total hundreds of thousands of affected by the deficit.
Hydraulic resources specialists cited by the official Cuban press say that at this time 99% of the national territory is affected by meteorological drought. According to that data, the island would be crossing the driest period since 1901.
