Images are circulating on social media of a bus parking lot in Santiago de Cuba, where most of the vehicles show a significant level of deterioration, causing widespread outrage among internet users who are questioning the regime's management of public transportation.
The profile "Rodando Por Cuba" shared a gallery of images of the bus cemetery on Facebook, a post that has sparked numerous comments, most of which point to the government's poor management and express the opinion that the fate of the buses would be very different in the hands of the private sector.
Freddy Jiménez Méndez stated that "this only happens in Cuba, a Socialist State Enterprise where no executives, leaders, or officials—however you want to name them—are held accountable for these teams." He emphasized that the regime should lease them to private individuals "who would put them to work in good condition."
“Put the self-employed individuals in charge so they can see how to get all those buses running,” Tania Salazar remarked. However, the regime is on a crusade against this type of management in public transportation.
Yordis Cruz Lores expressed a similar opinion: “There is only one solution: to lease them to the drivers who can bring these excellent buses to life, or to sell them to a small or medium-sized enterprise, without obstacles or bureaucracy.” The internet user stated that this approach would help address one of the current problems in society: transportation.
In the context of the transportation crisis, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz recently expressed his frustration during a visit to the municipality of Antilla in Holguín, where he once again criticized those who provide transportation services from the private sector in front of state transporters.
Marrero Cruz scolded the transport providers in Antilla after the public buses were idle due to a lack of fuel, while private transport trucks were still in operation.
The prime minister acknowledged that if the buses were handed over to private operators tomorrow, they would certainly not be idle, as they were at that moment.
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