The director of the Raíces Profundas folkloric company, the choreographer Idolidia Ramos, remains hospitalized after being seriously injured in a shooting that occurred this Thursday at the headquarters of the cultural institution, on Consulado street, between Ánimas and Trocadero, Central Havana.
Along with the 50-year-old woman, “a 37-year-old man was seriously injured, endangering his life” and was “fleeing from a supposed reckoning,” according to the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power of Centro Habana in a note released by official media.
In their Facebook profile, the authorities of Central Havana, almost a day after dozens of complaints about the shooting were published on social networks, assured that “the victims were referred to receive medical assistance” and they keep abreast “of the evolution of the two people”.
“Internet users on social networks have expressed their concern about whether the event occurred in a nearby school, but the reality was that it initially occurred on public roads and then in said folkloric center,” adds the note, which ensures that the Ministry of the Interior it carries out “the corresponding investigations to clarify the fact.”
In addition to the mentioned school, near the place of the shooting, a very busy street in Centro Habana, is the Lido hotel and many family residences.
According to him influencers Cuban Edmund Dantes Juniorwho published the testimony of a girl who was in the educational center when the shots rang out, the choreographer Idolidia Ramos “underwent emergency surgery, as a bullet pierced her intestine.” She “She is currently out of danger and in stable condition.”
In full pursuit, the subjects slipped into the building and, once inside, one of them opened fire, seriously injuring the artist.
Dantés Junior explained that in full pursuit the subjects slipped into the building and, once inside, one of them opened fire, seriously injuring the artist. “The police have not yet captured the criminals, although they were able to identify them thanks to the cameras located in the area,” he published this Friday.
The government of Central Havana assured that “no resources or schedules are spared for the prompt capture of those involved” and that “acts of this magnitude have not gone and will not go unpunished in Cuba.”
These types of incidents that record firearm attacks are unusual on the Island but have become more frequent in recent years. One of the most recent occurred at the end of last January in Guanabacoa when two subjects violently robbed a couple a total of 880,000 Cuban pesos, chains and a bag.
According to testimonies, the thieves summoned the victims to the Havana neighborhood of Chibás for an “exchange of illegal currency,” but in the place they met two hooded men, who after “intimidating them with two firearms,” stripped them of their clothes. of their belongings and fled. Videos that circulated on social networks show the moment when the thieves try to escape and one of them fires a shot with a homemade pistol.
In December 2018, a man was injured when he was shot. during a shootout in the Havana residential neighborhood of Miramar, supposedly when he was trying to flee from two other men who were chasing him. According to witnesses consulted by Efe at the time, the two alleged attackers were arrested shortly after by the Police.
The escalation of violence in Cuba is increasingly notorious and is the point of analysis in various reports from organizations. The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), in its report last April, classified the situation as a “thorny” issue. He pointed out that in Holguín, several people have denounced being victims of theft of motorized at the point of bladed weapons, while in Villa Clara assaults on coachmen and cyclists are frequent.
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