Madrid/Dozens of people took to the streets on Tuesday night in the municipality of Marianao (Havana) to claim the end of the blackout they were suffering. In a Shared video on social networksyou see how the neighbors touch their casseroles in the middle of a street where they have stopped traffic and burn objects.
According to the resident testimonies collected in the place by Cubanetthe events happened on 51st Street with 88b, in the Santa Felicia neighborhood, and the police immediately arrived. “There are two detained boys,” Karelia Ibáñez says in his comment, which reports: “Not only did they touch cauldrons, there was a demonstration. No official was not projected before the convoy arrived, so they were all with everything and all.”
A few minutes later, they also say, they returned the light to the neighborhood. “It had been removed for four days and put it every 10 or 15 minutes, early morning and everything,” says Lissette de las Mercedes Quintero Flores. “They played cauldrons throughout the neighborhood, but as always someone warned and the police truck came.”
“It had been removed for four days and put it every 10 or 15 minutes, early and everything”
Sami Mayde Sánchez brings more details, but coincides in what reflects numerous comments: “They burned things on the street, most were women. When I passed there were many police officers and everything was already calm, but there were enough people yet.” For his part, Mario Miguel Lago Leyva points out that “the idea started from Finlay” and then “they joined” from other areas. And he continues: “A convoy and police colonel arrived, a truck, like five patrols, two sneaks and a citizen who took him detained without cause. Ah, and then the mayor of the municipality. After there they put the current and a political discourse of unfounded justifications.”
In recent weeks, protests are multiplying, not only because of the lack of light, but for water or the lack of garbage collection. Last week, 14ymedio registered a cacerolazo in the middle of a blackout in the IMVOICATION OF THE SPORTS CITYan once classified as where “it is not going to light.”
Similarly, a group of women closed Monte Streetin the heart of Havana, loaded with their children and empty cubes, manifesting their anger about the lack of services. Although several police officers faced them, moments later, a pipe arrived at the site, guarded by a patrol.
The blackouts are not the only condition in Marianao. Just three days ago, official television published a report on the municipality, in the story of the “Hygienization” campaign in which the Government has put officials from all ministries, and the neighbors spoke to the cameras without ambiguity of the situation they are living. “It is a sum of several problems, that if it were one, it is fine, but it is water, it is garbage, it is the current,” said Ofareina well Jiménez, resident in the neighborhood of Pocitos.
“We have been without water for 36 days,” said Talía Leyé, which added other issues: “The issue of garbage, the issue of polyclinic, which there are no medications.” The garbage is collected every month “or every two months,” said another neighbor, Pedro Miguel González. “That is the problem. When they collect garbage all diseases are over.”
More than 27,000 inhabitants live in Marianao, Channel Caribe reported, “with a critical situation with the water supply through the distribution network.”
