MIAMI, United States. — A Cuban resident in the municipality of Jiguaní, province of Granma, rebuked the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel during one of the visits that he did for some of the areas affected by the heavy rains of recent weeks.
“For not telling the truth, we are as we are,” the woman told the president before listing several of the problems in her community.
One of the issues addressed by the local woman was that of a combatant with housing problems, a common problem for not a few veterans of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR).
“There is a colleague who is a combatant, who is a vulnerable case. A fighter who, at this point, sleeps in a hammock and in a house that is falling down,” the woman pointed out.
Faced with the claim, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), surrounded by bureaucrats and a strong security device, asked about the combatant’s family, to which the old woman replied: “The combatant’s family says he has no resources to attend to it.
Despite the complaint, Díaz-Canel maintained that there were hundreds of people in the same situation and that the government does not have all the resources to attend to them.
The woman also expressed her disagreement with the work of the Party cadres and the authorities of the territory. In this sense, the ruler said that the municipal and provincial authorities had arrived at the place after the heavy rains.
“The paintings came here from the first moment. They came to see the problems, to identify the problems and also to help,” she noted.
The municipality of Jiguaní was one of the most affected by the rains in Cuba. The heavy rainfall caused the overflow of the river of the same name, which caused massive flooding and serious damage to the inhabitants of that area in the eastern part of the country.
