Madrid Spain.- Ten homeless Cuban mothers occupied an abandoned printing press on Calle Virtudes #816 between Oquendo and Márquez González, in Centro Habana.
These women, including two pregnant women, have been there with their 11 children for a week. They were surrounded by the Technical Department of Investigations (DTI) and are receiving threats of eviction.
As the leader of the group explained to Diario de Cuba, they are in this place because their houses are in danger of collapsing or they don’t have any.
“As soon as we got in, people from the DTI came to say that we should leave, without listening to us or anything. Since we are not going to leave without them talking to us and our problem being resolved, the Police have prevented the entry of food that they bring us, all to force us to give up, ”he explained.
“We don’t want them to see our problem as something political, we just want to be heard and, if possible, to give each of us a piece of this huge abandoned place so we can have our home. It is the only thing we want, but no one from the government has come here to talk with us,” said another of the mothers.
In a video shared on Facebook by Alain Paparazzi Cubano the situation in which these women find themselves is observed and how the authorities are preventing access to everyone who arrives with food or any type of help.
Last January, the authorities of the capital municipality of San Miguel del Padrón evicted a Cuban mother with three daughters, who had entered illegally in an old premises of the Copextel Company, abandoned several years ago.
“I have been here for seven days and I entered because I had been sleeping in doorways for almost three months. I did all the paperwork to get a place to stay: I went to Housing (Municipal Directorate), to the Government, I went everywhere and they always kicked me, “said the woman in an interview offered to CubaNet shortly before being evicted.
At the end of 2021, Elisandra Cardoso and Dayamís Sánchez, two single pregnant Cuban mothers, received threats of eviction from the government of Alquízar, Artemisa province.
After more than three years waiting in vain for the municipal authorities to provide them with shelter, these mothers illegally occupied an uninhabited fishermen’s house.
After being promised a house, and spending years “signing papers”, they were taken out of the aid program without giving them any explanations.
More and more testimonies of people evicted by the Cuban regime come to light; homeless people who are left with no choice but to occupy abandoned sites.
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