Elderly people and women with children experienced a day of frustration this Sunday, waiting from early morning for buses that never arrived due to a lack of fuel.
Journalist Yosmany Mayeta reported on Facebook the lack of transportation at the Calle 4 terminal, from where trucks and buses depart to the municipalities of Santiago de Cuba and nearby provinces.
"Several people have written to me to report the critical situation they are facing with Interprovincial Transportation and the departure of state buses to the municipalities in Santiago de Cuba," Mayeta noted.
Although the video shared by the journalist shows the situation that people faced this Sunday, it highlighted that the crisis worsens from Monday to Friday.
In the short clip, a person can be heard reporting that there were people waiting for transportation since 4:00 AM.
“There are elderly people and women with children waiting for a bus that was supposed to leave at 5:00 AM. They say there is no fuel, and today Sunday is worse,” he pointed out.
Recently, images of a bus parking lot in Santiago de Cuba circulated on social media, where the majority of the vehicles showed a high degree of deterioration, causing great outrage among internet users who question 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 generated numerous comments, with most agreeing on pointing out the poor management of the government and expressing that the fate of the buses would be very different in the hands of the private sector.
The Cuban government has acknowledged the transportation crisis in the country, revealing that more than half of the provincial routes are paralyzed, as reported this Tuesday during the session of the Cuban Parliament.
Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, Minister of Transportation (Mitrans), indicated that by the end of April, 52% of the routes of the provincial transportation companies were paralyzed, as reported by the state newspaper Granma.
In July, the service of Gazzelle microbuses from the company Taxis Cuba was affected in Havana due to instability in fuel supply, a hard blow for thousands of citizens in the capital.
On their Facebook page, the group reported on the situation and reminded how it works: The Gazelle micros supply the necessary fuel daily in the evening and early morning to provide route service to the population on the following day.
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