A dozen women close a street in Regla due to the lack of water

Havana/A dozen women closed a street in the Regla municipality, Havana, this Friday afternoon in protest against the lack of water. The residents of Martí Street, between Pereira and November 27, blocked the passage of vehicles with buckets, chairs and empty containers after almost a month without water supply, as confirmed at the scene. 14ymedio.

“Here only the water arrives by pipe,” a resident of the area told this newspaper, clarifying that the tanker trucks do not arrive frequently either. “One of those women is the mother of a 9/11 protester,” the resident said of one of the protesters. In a few minutes, uniformed police officers and plainclothes officers began to arrive on the block.

in a video spread on networks Social events show a strong police presence and a uniformed officer arguing with one of the protesters. “I would have gone to the Government right there,” claims the agent who reproaches the woman for leaving the institutional headquarters before they treated her.

Street closures, whether to protest the poor state of housing or to denounce the lack of water supply, have become increasingly common in Cuba in recent years. In Havana, lines of people are frequently seen blocking the passage of vehicles to demand everything from a solution to their housing problems to the arrival of a tanker truck to alleviate the water deficit.

At the end of September, a dozen women They closed Monte Street, a few meters from the Parque de la Fraternidad. The demonstration was led by Magalys Anglada Mena, daughter of the United States-based activist Ariadna Mena Rubio. Moments later, a pipe arrived at the scene, guarded by the Police. Anglada later received a police summons.

The protest was similar to the one carried out almost two years ago by other mothers very close to there and for the same reason, it shows the critical supply situation in the capital, which has worsened in recent weeks and affects almost all municipalities.

Women were outraged by a problem that affects all aspects of their lives.

Last July, also in Regla, a dozen women With their children they blocked the way to vehicles on the Calzada Vieja between C and D, in protest because water had not entered the area for almost four months. After claims and sterile bureaucratic procedures, the protesters, from the Reparto Unión, decided to act.

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

Shortly after the protest began, a tanker truck arrived at the scene so that the neighbors could get supplies, an arrival that helped break up the demonstration and restored the passage of vehicles through the street.