Havana.- The coffin With the body of Hildelisa Hernández, founder of the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV), they had to move to the local cemetery on a bus.
Images shared by a friend of the deceased in her social networks show the cof Funeral cars.
Clara Carballea expressed in the Facebook publication: “What we are happening in this Cuba are the most terrible days that a human being can resist.” Hernández’s co -worker specified that the body could be transferred thanks to the fact that the Film School offered the bus and the administrator as an act of humanity was responsible for accompanying Hildelisa, who dedicated his entire life to the emblematic center.
It is not the first time that the Film School together with other institutions have had to provide their means of transport to transfer to deceased people. Nora Rodríguez commented in this regard “the EICTV and some very few entities that the municipality has given our dead to take them to its last abode because the province does not have a funeral car available, in any of its municipalities, nor flowers.”
In recent times, thanks to independent media information and social networks, images of burials in private cars, carts, trucks have been disclosed. A few weeks ago a video was disseminated on how a child’s body was taken in a hammock in the east of the country.
“Families end this last process with incredible exhaustion and stress, apart from all the past during the family’s disease, which is where there is cloth to cut. Without words in what we have fallen, ”concluded Rodríguez
In Cuba it is already part of the standard that does not guarantee even the solemn burial or minimum quality conditions for the coffin, when there is availability. They have even recognized it in official media. In 2018, the newspaper Granma He reported the “insufficient technical availability of funeral cars” and problems in the quality of coffins, reflecting a persistent crisis in the country’s necrological services. Seven years later the situation has only worsened.
The shortage of resources in funeral services is only a manifestation of the adverse living conditions faced by the Cuban population. The economic crisis has caused a chronic shortage of food, medicines, water and other essential goods, leading to 90% of the living population in “extreme poverty”
In addition, energy infrastructure is poor, with constant blackouts that affect the daily life of citizens. The combination of deteriorated public services, shortage of basic resources and an economy in crisis has plunged Cuba in an alarming humanitarian situation.
