MIAMI, United States. — The Anti-Imperialist Tribune in Havana, an esplanade built by order of the late dictator Fidel Castro at the end of the 1990s, continues to undergo major repairs that have lasted for almost four years.
A report from the digital portal cubadebate points out that, despite the fact that the brigades do not stop their work, there is still no exact date for the completion of the work.
The official media recently interviewed Rafael Becerra Cardelo, main expert of the Specialized Services Company and Integrated Project Management (ESEDIP), an entity that had to assume the restructuring last year.
The young man indicated that the inauguration of the new Anti-Imperialist Tribune was scheduled for July 26, 2023, although he assured that “the energy situation that Cuba is going through will not allow this plan to be fulfilled.”
“When constituting a civil work, the state prioritizes other factors. In addition, in this last stage the affectations presented have not been for technical reasons, but purely for energy in the country. Even so, the work has not been paralyzed, we have worked for intense days,” Becerra Cardelo told cubadebate.
According to the expert, it is a work “that requires a lot of equipment”: loaders, backhoes, jackhammers, compressors and trucks. Likewise, he specified that the cement for the work must be transferred from the province of Cienfuegos, which further triggers the cost of fuel.
On what the new Tribune will be like, Becerra Cardelo explained that space will be given to adult vegetation, so “an underground irrigation system” will be added for it.
Those developing the work insist that the new Anti-Imperialist Tribune must be durable and sustainable, as well as project an attractive image.
Built in just 80 days in the space occupied by the Cuatro de Julio park, the Anti-Imperialist Tribune was inaugurated on April 3, 2000 and became the epicenter of the so-called Battle of Ideas launched by Fidel Castro as a result of the Elián González case. , and later during the campaign in favor of the five spies of the Wasp Network.
However, after the dictator abandoned his responsibilities due to health problems in 2006, the Tribune went into the background and their structures were almost consumed by saltpeter and humidity.
