The Cuban writer Luis Dener Hernández denounced the contradictions of the official media when reporting the direction of the collapse of a multi-family building that cost the lives of three people on Tuesday night, apparently to hide a previous complaint made byCyberCuba last July.
The poet and narrator demonstrates in avideo posted on Facebook whatCubadebate andGranma They reported the incident with different addresses, and then exchanged the alleged error in an alleged attempt to confuse and hide that residents in that building had reported to the independent press three months ago that they were in imminent danger of collapse.
The writing ofCyberCuba received the pastJuly 28, the complaint of a resident family in apartment 9 (third floor on the right) of the collapsed building, whose members sent images that showed the walls cracked perpendicularly (an unavoidable sign that a building can fall), the open floors, the constant fall of pieces of ceiling, where the rods were visible outside.
A neighbor named Vladimir Ayala then reported that in the building at Lamparilla 368, where there was a lot with 13 families, very elderly and disabled people lived.
He mentionedAlberto Arias Lores, still 96 years old, his granddaughter Alba Rosa Morales and great-grandson Adonis, 23.
The elderly man had lived in the building since 1976 and was among the two people hospitalized. After the collapse, Alberto, now 97 years old, was taken to the hospital due to multiple blunt force trauma to the head, according to information from the Government of Havana in.
The source said that Lores suffers from bronchiectasis, a disease of the respiratory tract; The great-grandson suffers from hemiparesis (partial cerebral palsy) and is deaf.
"Neither the Government nor Housing care for Alba Rosa, I hope that her problem can be made public," Ayala stated in her complaint.
"I am sure that the building – near Plaza del Cristo, Old Havana – is close to collapsing," Ayala said.
Alba Rosa Morales said that she had gone to different government agencies to raise her family's situation, including the social worker and the district delegate, but all claimed that they had no response to her claim.
"No one cares, not even the delegate, Yamilet Jerez Mejías, who is also a doctor and knows the health problems they have," denounced another source close to the family.
CyberCuba He had access to several photographs that demonstrated the state of deterioration of the building.
You could put your hand into the cracked walls; The floor at the entrance door had caved in, pieces of the ceiling were falling down and revealing rusty rods; humidity and leaks. Other structural problems in the building were also evident.
"I hope that now, with this complaint, the authorities will do what is appropriate and find a solution for them and for the other neighbors who live in a building in danger of collapsing," Ayala concluded.
AlthoughCyberCuba sent an email to the Housing authorities in Old Havana to obtain their statements regarding the constant complaints from the neighbors, they did not respond to the messages.
On Tuesday night the building finally collapsed and when rescuers went in to get the families out, a second collapse left them trapped inside. A third collapse buried two rescuers and a 79-year-old man; all three died and their bodies were recovered on Wednesday.
Another neighbor told ThursdayRadio Television Martí that the collapse could be avoided but the Cuban authorities did not respond to the requests for help that the population made on several occasions.
"Obviously he was going to fall. I'm the one whoI alerted everyone five months ago that it was collapsing, that they should come out," the man said.
This person assured that the authorities were alerted on numerous occasions but did not intervene in the repair of the building that collapsed on Tuesday.
The residents of the building located on Lamparilla Street No. 368 knew that there was a danger of collapse, however they did not leave their homes because they had nowhere to go. 13 family units lived in this old building, a total of 54 people.
They are currently housed in a school, where thechildren sleep on the floor and the authorities told the affected families that they had to leave the school before next Friday.
Cuba allocates most of its investment to the construction of hotels, while its housing stock continues to deteriorate without pause and claim lives. Last week two more people died in other landslides.
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