Havana/The ruling party, through the realities profile from Holguín, announced the arrest of “several citizens” for illegal felling in the province. The report, which begins with the phrase “high there,” said Tuesday that some operations were carried out in municipalities such as Mayarí, Cacocum and Báguanos.
According to the official version, the body of rangers discovered those involved in full “Reception of sawn wood from the Holguin River for subsequent sale in the informal market.”
The official profile assured that surveillance in the area has been carried out “with the purpose of controlling our valuable natural reserves”, since “the predators of the flora cannot put our environmental balance at risk. Many damage has already caused him to nature.” In the message, readers even questioned: “Don’t you think it’s time to stop?”
The report stressed: “indiscriminate felling is a serious matter these days and it should say that it constitutes a transgression to the law with capital letters, the authorities acted promptly” against “each of the citizens involved.”
Surveillance in the area has been made “with the purpose of controlling our valuable natural reserves”
Just last April, also in Holguín, another official profile, road in the sight, reported that two people were arrested for illegal felling, after “they were caught transporting a considerable amount of cedar wood.” The authorities seized 111 pieces, equivalent to 6.8 cubic meters.
In the country, illegal felling and the sale of wood in the black market has been extended in recent years. The energy crisis – which has as its last sample button the second national blackout of the year, occurred this Wednesday– He has forced thousands of families to relive the use of coal ovens Or that they use the wood of trees to cook, although it can also have other uses such as their sale to private carpenters.
“There are no gas and there are many hours of blackout; so we have to cook with firewood.” Thus begins a Food Program monitor report last August with the title Survival vs. Environment: indiscriminate felling trees to eat. In the document, the Observatory questioned: “How to demand a family that does not tal a tree to cook if the alternative is not to eat?”
He even recalled that the Official Gazette Granma He urged producers to use firewood as a fuel, presenting it as a solution to the so -called “energy situation”.
‘Granma’ urged producers to use firewood as a fuel, presenting it as a solution
Food Monitor set as an example what happened in Venezuela, “a country rich in oil and gas, where its inhabitants, after years of collapse, had to start cutting down trees to cook.”
On the energy crisis in Cuba, last Monday, the ruling party launched a criticism through the Camagüeyan newspaper Forward. In a text entitled Zombies without scheduleclaimed that “in recent months there have been few good days: 20 continuous hours without electric fluid. All daytime schedule without electric fluid.”
Paragraphs later, with resignation, he said: “We do not even complain about the lack of electricity. We look forward to the arrival of the current and pray so that three hours reach us when we must cook, wash, clean, fill the tanks or iron the clothes. And it is that the latest information offered by the company in the month of May with respect to schedules was the three hours with electricity for nine without it;
“We don’t even complain about the lack of electricity. We look forward to the arrival of the current”
Just two days ago, the Ministry of Energy and Mines recognized, in a report In which he said that during the month of July, the daily average of hours without light in Cuba was 15 hours and 50 minutes. In August there was improvement, but veryy: 14 hours and 54 minutes.
The official data corroborated the daily suffering of the Cubans, whose maximum current concern are the electricity cuts, as reflected in the most recent Report of the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.
