AREQUIPA, Peru – While Cuba’s housing program is in a critical state, the regime is promoting its construction products and services at the Luanda International Fair, Angola’s largest trade and exhibition event.
A report from the state agency Latin Press He reported on the presence of companies controlled by the dictatorship at the fairgrounds, which presented construction materials produced in Cuba, agricultural components, and tourist packages to the island.
Walfrido Larduey, senior business specialist at Imbondex Construcciones, part of the military conglomerate GAESA, said his company offers construction, materials manufacturing and consulting services.
Laurdey brought to the event items such as washed sand and concrete blocks, “an agricultural limestone for improving soil acidity, which can be very attractive for farmers and companies in the sector,” he explained.
Imbondex Turística, for its part, presented the health tourism packages on the Island and others marketed by the Atlantico Azul Agency, as well as the services of its three accommodation units in Luanda: Cruzeiro, Flamingo and Milenium, commented the commercial specialist of the aforementioned agency, Alexey Cuba.
Likewise, the company Antex Proyectos exhibited its portfolio of services in Angola, which includes everything from architecture and civil construction, hydraulics, roads and bridges, to laboratory and field tests, quality control of works and geotechnical and geospatial research.
While the Castro regime is trying to expand its business opportunities and income at international fairs, the people of the island are plunged into a deep crisis, lacking the same products and services that Cuban companies display.
Last June, Dilaila Díaz Fernández, general director of Housing in Cuba, in reference to the housing program, said that by the end of May only 3,579 had been completed, which represents a tiny 0.8% of current needsAccording to government estimates, 447,375 properties are required, despite the population decline caused by mass emigration in the last two years.
Díaz Fernández described the pace of implementation of the housing program as “insignificant.” “As a general rule, the projected times to stop the deterioration and resolve the problem are increased.” housing deficit“, he said, highlighting the lack of attention and adequate response by territorial authorities to national guidelines.
This ineffectiveness reflects not only the regime’s failure to prioritize appropriately, but also its disconnection from the urgent needs of the population.
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