This is the third protest that has occurred in the municipality of Mayarí since Friday, a territory affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
LIMA, Peru – About twenty residents of Guairajal, Holguín province, including women and children, went out to protest on the town’s roads after 26 days without electricity and water.
Journalist Mario J Pentón shared several recordings of the demonstration via Facebookwhere you can see the group of Cubans with pots, signs and chanting: “We want current!”
This is the third protest that has occurred in the municipality of Mayarí since Friday, a territory affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa at the end of last October.
“We want them to take care of this neighborhood! They want to disappear us! There were two hundred or so houses here and there aren’t 40 left! (…) I want you to understand this: they don’t leave us any other option,” denounced one of the protesters.
The neighbors also complained about the lack of water, food, the deterioration of the town school and the abandonment of the authorities.
“We are tired. We have lost all our strength. We have gotten sick from carrying river water to drink, water that is contaminated by so much rain. This is sad. We have no help from anyone. No one takes care of us. We feel abandoned,” commented one of the residents.
In the last days Residents of Pontezuela and Seboruco also took to the streets in Mayarí. In these locations, the complaints were also motivated by weeks of blackouts, water shortages, and the absence of a state response.
In Pontezuela fountains CubaNet They reported that the local mayor and an officer from the Cuban regime’s political police appeared at the scene. The authorities said they did not know the magnitude of the electrical damage and assured that the service could be restored in about two days.
For its part, in Seboruco the unrest was exacerbated last Friday after a publication by pro-government journalist Emilio Rodríguez, who assured that the town had already recovered electricity. Although the information was partially true—a small segment of five or six homes had been reconnected days before—the majority were still without power or water, which heightened outrage.
After an exchange with the regime’s delegate, the neighbors decided to summon more people from the local winery and shortly after, the leaders of the cyclone command post went to the scene in a jeep and began to offer explanations.
According to information collected by Cuban Diaryauthorities resumed electrical service around five in the afternoon, after sustained pressure from protesters.
Despite the partial restoration of electricity, residents say they still face serious water supply problems because the community is located in an elevated area, where the supply depends directly on electricity.
