The cleaning in the streets of Havana did not last long. One day before the elections to the National Assembly of People’s Power last Sunday, a battalion of state workers collected the dirt that usually accumulates on the corners due to the lack of means of all kinds.
It’s barely Wednesday and the garbage is already rampant. On Espada street on the corner with Callejón de Hamel, in Centro Habana, the waste not only exceeds three containers, but also spreads over the floor more than double the size of those containers. “You can see that the voting is over,” an old woman murmured sarcastically as she passed in front of her, covering her mouth and nose and crossing the sidewalk.
“You can see that the voting is over,” an old woman murmured sarcastically as she passed by, covering her mouth and nose and crossing the sidewalk.
The “operative” prior to the opening of the polls –whose official results are viewed with suspicion by the citizens who observed the schools almost empty during all that day– was repeated in different cities throughout the Island, and included food sales in parks and squares and the absence of electricity cuts.
Three days after what some international organizations have called the “most irregular” elections in the history of Cuba, waste, shortages and blackouts return.
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