A huge garbage dump in a corner of Havana is filling the area with rats and other pests, with the authorities neglecting to address the problem.
A local resident sent photos to CiberCuba to report what is happening in his block on Marino Street, between San Pablo and Auditor, in the Cerro municipality.
According to him, that amount of garbage is the result of a long time during which the trucks responsible have not collected it.
"Mice, worms, and why mention the flies, are free to roam," he expressed.
Landfills in residential areas promote the proliferation of rats and mosquitoes that transmit dengue, the Oropouche virus, and leptospirosis.
"Tell them however they want about the causes. Health is a fundamental link in social priority. This is a mess in public health," said comedian Ulises Toirac, who shared a photo of a pile of garbage on a corner on his social media.
The streets of Cuba, not just those in the capital, are flooded with garbage due to a lack of resources and the inefficiency of the regime.
At the end of August, the user identified on Facebook as Edmundo Dantés Junior urged his fellow citizens to post photos of the dumps in their neighborhoods, an unusual "contest" aimed at denouncing the alarming accumulation of garbage.
Days later, a neighbor from El Vedado showcased in a video how the Comunales workers in Havana collect garbage without gloves or other protections.
"These gentlemen you see here, under what conditions are they working, because the rotting, the accumulation of organic waste, including grass and other refuse, is terrible," he said on Facebook.
In April, a study by the Cuban Citizen Audit Observatory (OCAC) revealed that the regime fails to collect the equivalent of three Olympic swimming pools of garbage every day in Havana, making the capital of the Island a "critical hotspot of health insecurity."
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