Large piles of accumulated garbage, where you usually see people searching something of value or simply to eat, they are part of the urban landscape of the municipality Havana Center of the Cuban capital.
Converted into a ruin and giant garbage dump, the most densely populated municipality in Cuba sees time pass without resolving the problems that afflict its inhabitants, either from the house collapse to the lack of drinking water, or the proliferation of garbage dumps and dumps on its corners.
Sources of infections and epidemiological problems, the garbage dumps of Central Havana They are exposed to the view of the few tourists who today dare to circulate through the streets of the capital..
With 140,233 residents and an area of 3.42 square kilometers (km2), the smallest municipality in the capital has a population density of 41,004 people per km2. The garbage in Central Havana ostensibly corresponds to these figures, according to images captured by the independent media CubaNet.
Shared this Monday through their social networks, the video captures a lacerating reality for the people of Havana, who observe indignantly the inability of the authorities to solve a problem that, beyond the bad image it projects, affects the public health of the people.
“Garbage has become a dilemma in recent months in Havana. Tons of waste that are waiting to be collected are the reality of many neighborhoods in the Cuban capital,” the official journalist acknowledged in mid-November. Lazaro Manuel Alonso.
At the end of August, the prime minister Manuel Marrero Cruz He said that "the responsibility for sanitizing the city belongs to everyone," when evaluating various government issues at a meeting in Havana, which also discussed the collection of solid waste in Havana.
According to calculations by the capital's authorities, the total amount of solid waste generated in Havana daily reaches 23,814 m3, of which 69% corresponds to the activity of services and household waste, and 31% to debris and others.
In mid-September, the Havana government approved a Regulation for Decoration, Hygiene and Communal Services that contemplates astronomical fines for throwing garbage out of containers, among other infractions.
Resolution 190 of 2023 established up to 3,000 pesos in fines for those who throw waste outside the deposits and at the established times, or for those who, without being authorized, change the location of the containers located on public roads.
It also established fines between 3,500 and 4,000 pesos for those who throw debris, wood, metals or other inappropriate objects into the containers, such as waste from production, commerce, or gastronomy and food services. However, sanctioning policies continue without yielding results.
In mid-May, a Cuban woman denounced that Havana had become a large garbage dump, and demanded that the authorities not hide behind the fuel crisis or the “blockade” in order not to find a solution.
“Until when are we going to remain silent in the face of what is happening today in all the streets of Havana, covered in garbage, all the containers collapsed, and this brings dirt, pest, all kinds of animals that then enter our homes. So I say, what urgent solution do you have, don't say that fuel or the now outdated phrase 'is the blockade,'" he denounced.
"Look for options: carts pulled by horses or oxen, war tanks, burn the garbage, I don't know, because we as citizens have the right to live in a clean city not in a garbage dump and you as a Government have the obligation to comply and maintain citizen tranquility,” he added.
Faced with the inaction of the authorities, who do not offer lasting solutions beyond specific actions - mobilized by citizen unrest and the regime's propaganda -, residents of the Lawton neighborhood, in the Havana municipality of Diez de Octubre, They set fire to the accumulated garbage at the beginning of the year in a huge landfill on the corners of San Anastasio and Carmen streets.
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