Havana/It has rained in Havana during the last weekend, but the intensity does not explain the disaster that is sweeping the entire city. “The sewage system is useless,” protest Havana residents of the most affected municipalities. Plaza de la Revolución, El Vedado and Centro Habana suffered the worst, as dozens of images on social networks attest. In Cerro, a neighbor told this newspaper that she had had to lift the furniture because the water reached above her ankle.
“The sewage issue in that area must be resolved. Nature has been sending signals for some time now. With 1% of the new hotels installed in the municipality, the issue is resolved,” a resident of the capital asked Roilan Rodríguez Barbán, first secretary of the municipal committee.
The official, together with Liliana Malena Diaz Campa, president of the Municipal Assembly, and Mayor Rolando López Jiménez toured some of the affected areas this Sunday. The latter stated that the Aguas de La Habana company and Aurora de Plaza de la Revolución are working together to “accelerate the drainage and waste collection work that allows the population residing in the area to return to normality more quickly.”
“The sewage issue in that area must be resolved. Nature has been sending signals for some time now. With 1% of the new hotels installed in the municipality, the issue is resolved”
But those affected did not stop lamenting that the problem threatens worse consequences. “If they don’t quickly collect the garbage to clear up the stumps, the next epidemic is going to be a plague,” another Havana woman cried out. At a time when the epidemiological situation is of great concern, the rainfall has finished off what is already an ideal breeding ground for mosquito breeding sites.
The situation has not been so dramatic as in Villa Clarawhere this weekend there were more than 900 people displaced by the floods, which damaged 190 homes and left several communities cut off. Most of the affected households were concentrated in Sagua la Grande and Cifuentes,
The Defense Council of the province reported that damage has been reported in 190 homes in the municipalities of Sagua la Grande and Cifuentes. Authorities said that the towns of Larrondo and Mariana Grajales – the latter with nearly 2,000 inhabitants – were isolated due to the failure of several bridges.
At least 17 people had to be taken to state evacuation centers and 689 stayed in the homes of family and friends, in Sagua la Grande; and 200 more in Cifuentes.
