AREQUIPA, Peru – The National Defense Council of the Cuban regime decided that the authors of an alleged “false news about the breaking of the curtains at the San Antonio del Sur dam” during the passage of Hurricane Oscar last week will be investigated and prosecuted. .
A report from the state media Granma points out that the issue came up at a meeting of the aforementioned Council held on October 25. In it, the process was announced regarding the alleged perpetrators that the Castro regime accuses of “creating panic in a population also affected psychologically after the passage” of the cyclone.
“People without the slightest modesty circulated this Friday, through social networks, the misleading rumor about an alleged break in the curtain of the Los Asientos dam, in this Guantanamo municipality,” indicates the newspaper of the Communist Party on the Island. without detailing the identity of the alleged suspects involved.
Yoel Pérez García, president of the Defense Council in the easternmost territory of Cuba, would have denied the “fake news.”
According to the official note, the rumors were spread with “obvious sinister purposes” among the residents. “The malicious lie caused logical shocks in a population that lives days of anguishderived from the flooding that its municipal seat suffered earlier this week,” he adds. Granma.
In this regard, Yanet Marzo Manuel, general director of the Hydraulic Use Company in Guantánamo, offered statements about the optimal technical state of Los Asientos, stating that there were no failures in any element of its infrastructure, including the curtain, the spillway and the basin. .
Likewise, the directive classified as normal the recent rainfall recorded upstream in the receiving source of the aforementioned reservoir, built in 1991, with the capacity to store 17.5 million cubic meters of water, a volume it currently stores.
Marzo Manuel also said that the Los Asientos dam is currently pouring 21.7 cubic meters per second, which, like the downpours that have fed it in recent hours, “are normal and do not imply any danger of flooding.”
The cost of Castro’s apathy
Hurricane Oscar hit the eastern part of Cuba on October 20. Although the meteorological event barely reached category one on the Saffir-Simpson scale, it was one of the most devastating in recent years.
The absence of a prevention protocol by the Civil Defense has been pointed out by the Cubans who suffered on site the impact of the meteorological phenomenon or that they are searching for their relatives, missing since last October 20, when Oscar made landfall.
In the provincial capital of Guantánamo, the winds were felt and it rained a lot, but the worst scenario was in Baracoa, Imías and San Antonio del Sur, where the hurricane, later a tropical storm, remained “almost stationary”.
In San Antonio del Sur, where there was an unprecedented flood, so far there were six deadamong them a five-year-old girl and three elderly people who were over 80 years old.
A Cuban resident in that municipality, complained to the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel that he was in charge of 29 children in the Special School during the passing of Oscar in their area and no one came to rescue them, as revealed in a video published by the media Martí News.
During a tour of Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, accompanied by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, Deputy Prime Minister Inés María Chapman, in that area, shocked Because of the floods, a Cuban told the president that the regime abandoned them.
“They left us alone there, 29 children. I had to evacuate the children, we almost couldn’t,” said the man from Guantanamo from one of the areas affected by Oscar.
