A dozen women block a street in order after four months without water

Havana/With cubes, tanks and other containers, a dozen women with their children closed the passage to vehicles on the old road between C and D in the Havana municipality of Rule, as a protest because almost four months ago water does not enter the area. After claims and sterile bureaucratic procedures, the protesters, of the Union cast, have decided to act this Saturday.

“It ended, we have been without water for almost four months!” A broadcast video In social networks. Visibly upset by the situation, women argue that they have gone “to all places, but it is always a slime and one molar”

Under the intense sun, with temperatures that in Havana exceeded this day the 30 degrees Celsius, women were outraged by a problem that affects all aspects of their life, from the elaboration of food, through personal hygiene to the care of young children and the elderly.

Next to the well -known Guanabacoa traffic

Next to the well -known Guanabacoa traffic light and the oil refinery, in the Union cast, the most affected area is in the high hill. “Here the water situation is critical,” he confirmed to 14ymedio A neighbor who, despite everything, feels less affected because she has been without supply for a month, since her house is located in the low of natural elevation.

Shortly after the protest began, a tank truck arrived at the scene so that the neighbors could stock up, an arrival that contributed to dissolve the demonstration and restored the passage of vehicles along the street, as this newspaper could verify. Residents in the surroundings came out with cubes and electric pumps to try to accumulate all the water they could.

Near the pipe, police cars and other vehicles were observed with the Criminalistics emblem, as well as local government officials tried to maintain the area calm.

The water deficit is an evil that increasingly hits Cuban homes due to the poor state of pumping equipment, lack of electricity and breakage of the main pipes. In recent months the problem has only worsened in parallel with the drought and the extensive blackouts that hit everyday life on the island.

Street closures, either to protest the poor state of homes or to denounce the lack of water supply, have become increasingly common in Cuba in recent years. In Havana, rows of people who cut the passage of vehicles are often seen to demand from a solution to their housing problems to the arrival of a tank truck that relieves the water deficit.

Last June, Lázaro Aguilar Medranoneighbor of Aguiar Street, corner to Muralla, in Havana Vieja, ended up arrested after cutting the passage of the cars by means of a claim for an institutional response for the poor state of his home. Instead of the officials, it was the Police and the State Security that came to the place.

In November 2023, a dozen women With their children they also closed the traffic on Monte Corner Street to Agramonte in Havana Vieja. After several days without water supply, the residents in the area decided to protest to make visible the situation he lived.

“We are not doing anything illegal, we are claiming our right,” said one of the neighbors. ”