Madrid/Perhaps Diosdado Venero Cruz, a simple chienfuegos sweeper, never imagined that he would be the protagonist of a video in the stellar news for his work, but today his work has become the most important of the island. In the opinion of this employee of communals, the carelessness of the population – which throws the garbage to desal Viruses expand in the country.
The city, according to Canal Caribe, once had the honor of being the cleanest in Cuba, but today the landfills are part of its landscape, as is the case throughout the geography of the country.
The deputy director of communals regrets that the Government does not even send inspectors or fine and that they face a situation of extreme precariousness due to the lack of labor, which is why they have mobilized for months of “confidence task”, as the prisoner work program is called.
The communal director states that for years they have also allied with construction companies, which have industrial machinery with which to remove the huge amounts of garbage. As he explains, there are more than 96 areas considered microverteys, which although they are eliminated are reproduced. The manager is very clear in his approach: it is impossible to collect garbage daily because there are neither vehicles nor equipment nor combustible. In his opinion, the only solution is that the law is fulfilled and that the State sends reinforcements.
The five minutes that the video lasts have the background image of authentic garbage avalanches, a theme that alarm, late, to the authorities
The data are demolving: the province must have a template of 290 sweeps, but there are only 160; The city needs 200, but there are 93. The average salary is 3,700 pesos (about eight dollars), little more than it cost in the road market of that city the egg cardboard last week of September. Diosdado Venero, the hero of the report, has decided to assume three routes alone, and that is why he takes 8,000 pesos.
The five minutes that the video lasts have the background image of authentic garbage avalanches, an issue that alarm, late, to the authorities to the point that this weekend Miguel Díaz-Canel was made with a shovel and rake to give an example of the effort with which the health must be maintained in the cities. On the capital, plunged between mountains of waste for years – as this newspaper has denounced, among other independent media until the official press pointed to the evidence – the threat of an epidemiological situation as serious as that of Matanzas, where this Monday was mobilized by another Salvation Armythis time health.
“Groups of health professionals will arrive in Matanzas to support the complicated epidemiological situation of the province. Several municipalities [esta provincia]
They have high numbers of patients as a result of the proliferation of mosquitoes, ”announced the journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso in his social networks. Diaz-Canel had already warned:” Everyone displayed on the ground, “he said, according to the press, referring to Havana and Matanzas,” also hit by Arbovirosis. ”
A day after being sweeping the streets of the capital, Díaz-Canel held an encounter with the authorities of the province in which he took stock of the task, as well as other collateral issues that influence the fatal viral situation of the country, including water supply. This weekend more than 35,000 cubic meters of waste were collected in the city – according to the Caribbean channel report, 500 generates Cienfuegos daily, the double if the construction are added – which required the mobilization of 910 media, of which 822 were “provided by organizations”.
It was not explained where, but 119 water pipes also appeared, which suppose 47 more than the date. The First Vice Minister, Ines María Chapman Waugh, said that the supply problems will be progressively solved, and even said that only this weekend there were 111,023 people less affected by the lack of supply, although there are 156,725 that remain the same.
“The fundamental challenge,” said Díaz-Canel in a supposedly motivating speech-consists in transforming these mobilizations into a sustainable and systematic strategy that effectively combines the political will, the allocation of resources, institutional efficiency and citizen co-responsibility. Havana must continue to work with citizen responsibility, that everyone joins the movement by a cleaner and healthier Havana. ”
In the same line was Marrero, who highlighted the importance of “responding to difficulties such as the low coefficient of technical availability of specialized communal vehicles”
In the same line was Marrero, who highlighted the importance of “responding to difficulties such as the low coefficient of technical availability of specialized communal vehicles”, although he did not explain how or who should carry with the responsibility of providing what is scarce.
The hygienization exercise and the solution of other problems in the capital is showing “our own insufficiencies,” Diaz-Canel admitted more off. “There are things to do every day and they are not done,” he added, regretting that there is no “culture of detail.”
Although concern about the epidemiological situation in Matanzas is extreme at this time, virus reports of all kinds arrive through social networks from all ends of the island. Lack of light, supply problems with water, bad garbage collection and the defective fumigation are the ideal culture broth for diseases. But Havana, with more than 1,750,000 inhabitants, worries. And a lot.
