HAVANA, Cuba. – “This house is about to be torn down; There are no conditions to live here,” says Suelen Chacón Lara, a Cuban mother of six children who lives in overcrowded conditions in the municipality. Marianao.
Suelen’s home, which is located on Calle 124 A, between 67 and 69, does not exceed three square meters. However, a total of two women and seven children reside there.
“In this little piece we all live together. “All this gets wet,” details the interviewee while pointing to the roof of the house. “I don’t have a television, a refrigerator, or a washing machine, but the Government says I have to wait,” Chacón Lara explained to CubaNet.
According to him, the Municipal Housing Directorate of Marianao and the municipal government justify their ineffectiveness with the fact that there are people in the municipality with worse situations than that of the young mother and that they do not have the necessary resources to solve their problems.
“What they have given me is financial aid of 5,823 pesos, a module that came in recently, two cribs and two mattresses. That’s what I received. And the crib is stored because I don’t have space to put it. The children have to continue sleeping one on top of the other,” he lamented.
Among their main problems, as detailed, is also the issue of food. “Sometimes I can’t buy chicken, nor can I buy taro; Many times I don’t have anything to feed the children. My reality is sad,” he lamented.
Likewise, he noted that he has also raised with the authorities the situation he has with the sewer water that comes from the adjacent building and floods his home. “You have to walk with bags on your feet,” he noted.
Likewise, she said that one of her youngest daughters was bitten by a rat inside her house. “What we are experiencing in this house is hell,” he concluded.
