Locals confront the authorities while chanting: “That’s a lie,” “we want answers.”
MIAMI.-In the Ho Chi Minh district, in the city of Guantanamo, several dozen residents took to the streets this Thursday to demand “answers” from the authorities in the face of the severe abandonment they are experiencing after the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which left a trail of destruction in the east of the country.
The protesters denounced the lack of government attention, the absence of emergency resources and the critical situation faced by entire neighborhoods that still remain without electricity. The eastern zone continues to report dozens of cut-off communities, without the possibility of accessing basic services or receiving help on a regular basis, due to destroyed roads, swollen rivers and severe communications disruptions.
The images of the protest were broadcast by the labalsacubana account on Instagram and show neighbors demanding assistance and transparency in the management of the emergency. Locals confront the authorities while chanting: “That’s a lie,” “we want answers.”
The demonstration was concentrated on Moncada and 12 South streets in the Ho Chi Minh district, in front of a tent where the winery is located, he told Martí News, the activist Miguel Ángel López Herrera, a resident of the neighborhood.
“A public protest. The people began to demand from Miguel Díaz-Canel that they wanted a response, that they did not want ‘drill’. That got heated when two police machines came, a State Security machine,” said López Herrera.
So far, there are no official statements explaining the delay in the arrival of resources to the affected areas or concrete plans to restore vital services.
Social tension occurs in a context marked by highly complex rescue operations.
In the Cacocum municipality, the authorities managed to evacuate 38 people with the support of military personnel and a PTS amphibious transporter, which had to navigate eight kilometers to reach the point where they were trapped.
In Sagua de Tánamo, the situation was even more dramatic: 142 people, including 30 minors, mothers with children and disabled people, were transferred to safe places by Rescue and Rescue brigades and volunteers from the Moa Red Cross, after the dangerous flooding of the river.
