Havana Cuba. – The Cuban María Margarita Nueva Rodríguez, who lives with her eight-year-old grandson in Old Havana, denounced this Tuesday before the cameras of CubaNet the “little concern” that government institutions have shown about the risk of their home collapsing.
“Since November 17, 2021, I wrote a letter, which I took for the different factors, saying that there was going to be a collapse and that they please come and see, that they send an inspector or a technician, but no one has appeared and Unfortunately, the collapse already occurred,” lamented the 65-year-old Cuban.
According to his account, on November 27, the roof of one of the rooms of his house located on the first floor of building 753, Egido street, between Paula and San Isidro streets, partially collapsed. Meanwhile, the ceiling of the second room leaks so it is also at risk of collapsing.
However, despite the danger that this represents for the old woman and her grandson, no authority had appeared at the scene until the time of writing this note.
“If I had been here inside my house at that time [el pedazo de concreto que se cayó] it would have killed me and my eight-year-old grandson,” said Nueva Rodríguez.
The interviewee recalls that a year has passed since she delivered the letter to the authorities warning of the danger of her apartment collapsing.
“I delivered it to different organizations: Multiple Buildings of the Municipal Directorate of living place; to Perla Rosales, who is the colleague who is in charge of what is the Historic District; to the Municipal and Provincial People’s Power. It’s been a year and I haven’t had an answer, ”she stressed.
The woman considers that the institutions have “rallied” her from one side to another despite the danger that this represents for her life and that of her grandson.
“How did that happen to me? [derrumbe parcial] I went to the Municipal Housing Directorate, which is where I have to request the technical opinion so that an architect can come and determine the situation”.
“From there they sent me to Physical Planning [municipal] where they told me that they could not send an inspector because they only attend to the homes that they own, that since mine is a free usufruct, that has to do with Housing, because the usufructs are property of the State. So I went back to Housing and requested the technical opinion, but so far no one has come, ”he lamented.
Likewise, the interviewee explained that among her biggest concerns is being buried in the rubble. That is why now he sleeps with her grandson on the floor of the living room of the house.
“I live alone here with an eight-year-old boy and he doesn’t want to sleep in the room because he says he’s going to fall. That’s why I decided to lower the mattress to the living room floor. I can’t do anything but wait for the other room to collapse,” said Nueva Rodríguez.
“Here the pieces of the stairs are falling down; the wires are dangling. One day another piece of concrete falls, a fire starts and the building is blown up by a kite,” she finished.
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