Havana Cuba. – Cuban opposition member Miriam Castanedo Morales assured in interview with CubaNet that the officials of the Municipal Housing Directorate of Centro Habana continue to ignore their claims.
According to Castanedo Morales, he recently went to that institution for “help” to repair the windows of the building where he lives, a place handed over by the authorities, despite the fact that it does not have the minimum conditions to be habitable.
“I was so overwhelmed by the situation I have with the windows that I went to the Municipal Department of Attention to the Housing Population in search of help,” says the interviewee.
However, at the time she was being treated, a state official arrived at the institution from which she was displaced. Castanedo Morales complained and an altercation was generated in which she, she assures, she was discriminated against.
Faced with the demand for attention, the head of the Department of Attention to the Housing Population of Centro Habana intervened and this caused a strong discussion.
“We both disagreed and he emphasized my social position and my sexual ‘preference’ alleging that I felt like a man, just for the fact of demanding my rights as a Cuban,” she said.
In October 2021, Castanedo Morales denounced in Interview with CubaNet the conditions of his home, located at Calle Figura 209, between Monte and Tenerife, in the Centro Habana municipality. Since then, he has carried out innumerable procedures in order to resolve his situation, taking into account that the space in which he lives does not have the minimum conditions to be inhabited: he does not have a bathroom, kitchen or drinking water.
Before arriving at that place, the woman was living in what was the bathroom of the old headquarters of the Municipal Directorate of Housing of Centro Habana, a space that was given to her to live by said institution, after wandering the streets From the capital.
Castanedo Morales is self-employed and is part of Small and Medium Entrepreneurs in Cuba (PEMEMCUB)a non-governmental organization that houses workers from the private sector that seeks to spread throughout the Island.
