Havana Cuba. – Castro’s propaganda and especially the ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez they insist that direct attention to the demands of the population, something like the pompously named “government in the street”, constitutes the most adequate way of governing. However, reality indicates that public officials are not behaving in this way.
In its edition of last Sunday, April 2, the newspaper rebel youth public the statistics about the responses that government agencies have provided to the letters from the population received through that newspaper during the second half of 2022.
The author of the journalistic work describes as “shame” the fact that only 45% of the population’s complaints have been answered by the different government agencies throughout the country. This is the lowest response rate since 2005. Something that demonstrates the insensitivity of Castro’s officials at a time when the needs and hardships of the population are growing.
At the national level, the issues that received the most complaints from the population were those related to housing, the judicial system, labor problems, the aqueduct, the electricity service, the telephone service, health services, and irregularities in the work of the Cuban Post Office.
If we delve into the aforementioned figures, we notice that the entities belonging to the province of Havana head the list of those that opted for silence. Of a total of 43 complaints presented to Havana entities, only 18 were answered, which means 41%. In other words, 4% less than the national average.
Among the capital entities that did not respond are the CUPET gas stations, the Provincial Directorate of Transportation, the Identity Card Office of the municipality of Diez de Octubre, the Administration Councils of the municipalities of Cerro, Habana del Este, Plaza de la Revolución , Old Havana, Diez de Octubre, Arroyo Naranjo and Marianao, the provincial directorates of Pharmacy, Justice and Commerce, the Municipal Directorates of Housing of Centro Habana and Diez de Octubre, the Municipal Directorate of Gastronomy of Centro Habana and the Restaurant Company of Luxury.
Curiously, if we take a look at the figures reported by the ruling party on the recent electoral process to form the new legislature of the National Assembly of Popular Power, we notice that it was in the province of Havana where the population’s rejection of the message from the leadership of power on the way in which voters should vote.
Havana reported the lowest number in the country regarding voter turnout at the polls, with only 65.81%. In other words, almost 10% less than what happened at the national level.
Similarly, Havana was, together with Mayabeque, the province where the most ballots had to be annulled, almost certainly because it contained demonstrations of opposition to the regime. In addition, the lowest percentage of the so-called “united vote”’ was reported in the capital, which reached only 68.45%.
Regardless of the fact that the Cubans’ rejection of the electoral farce promoted by Castroism should not be seen solely as a response to a certain government action, it would not be wrong to relate the defiant attitude of Havanans to the laziness of Castroist officials in the face of the claims of ordinary Cubans.
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