MIAMI, United States. – Next Tuesday, September 6, the priests José Conrado and Juan Lázaro Vélez will officiate a mass for the victims of the fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Baseat St. Raymond Catholic Church (3475 SW 17 Street, Miami, FL 33145).
“With your presence you will send a message of love to the families who lost their loved ones: parents, siblings, husbands and children, some teenagers at the beginning of their lives. Let us ask God to welcome them all into his bosom”, prays the invitation to the mass.
Likewise, the priests asked to pray “for peace, justice and freedom for all Cubans.”
Cuban authorities reported a total of 16 fatalities in the fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Base. Of them, only two could be identified: Carlos Santana Garrido, who was a member of the Camilo Cienfuegos Refinery Special Fire Protection Command, and the young firefighter Elier Correa, 24 years old.
After the incident, the Cuban Government reported that it was “impossible to absolutely identify” the remains of the 14 people who disappeared in the fire at the Supertanker Base.
“What we have explained to the relatives is that we have 14 groups of bone remains that correspond to the 14 disappeared people,” Jorge González Pérez, president of the Cuban Society of Legal Medicine, said at a press conference.
For his part, Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel ordered an official duel between August 18 and 19 “as a tribute to those who fell in the line of duty during the fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Base.”
Before the identity of those who died in Cuba’s worst industrial catastrophe was officially published, relatives of several young They denounced that their loved ones, who were serving Active Military Service (SMA), were sent to the front line of the fire to extinguish the flames without the necessary preparation.
As a result of the complaints about the death of several recruits, hundreds of Cuban users began to demand on social networks the end of Active Military Service (mandatory for men over 18 years of age) with the hashtags #NoAlServicioMilitarObligatorio and #NoAlServicioMilitarObligatorioEnCuba.
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