The family of a deceased elderly woman had to wait up to eight hours for the hearse to arrive in the province of Holguín to look for the body, which, on top of that, they had to watch over in the middle of a blackout at the funeral home.
“A few days ago a relative of mine died, a farmer on the road to Damián, here in Holguín. The hearse took 8 hours to look for the body, and there was no power in the funeral home,” Cuban writer Miguel Montero denounced this Wednesday in hissocial networks.
As he said, “I had to shine a phone on my family member to be able to see her and say goodbye to her.” The young activist, moderator of the Archipiélago platform, showed his perplexity and sadness at the point of dehumanization reached in Cuba, a country in which not even death is a rest for the deceased.
“It is, simply, unacceptable,” said the young intellectual who usually criticizes the Cuban regime on his social networks, and who due to his activism has been a victim of repression by State Security.
As a result of theCivic March for Change convened by Archipelago,Montero was arrested by the political police on the day of the march and was later released.
"This harassment is part of the actions of police harassment and intimidation that the repressive forces are exercising on those who have declared their decision to participate in the 15N march," the platform said in a statement in which it denounced the arbitrary detention of the young man and other moderatorsArchipelago.
In recent days, the Cuban doctor and activistAlexander Jesus Figueredo Izaguirre He revealed his pain and discomfort at the fact that his late grandmotherwatched over by her mother in the middle of a blackout.
“My mother watching my grandmother at the funeral home. I have saved this one for you. “This is how the communists come to say that Cuba is advancing and that they are continuity,” the doctor expressed on his social networks, accompanying the post with a photo of his mother completely in the dark at his grandmother's wake. Only the light from the mobile phone screen leaves some clarity in the image, in which the silhouette of his mother is barely visible.
The situation of thefuneral services in Cuba It is going from bad to worse, even the worst moment of the coronavirus pandemic has passed. The energy crisis impacts the lighting of funeral homes, as well as the cremation of bodies. Added to this is the precariousness of resources that impacts funeral ceremonies, a necessary ritual to face the grieving process of relatives of the deceased.
When it seemed that nothing could cause surprise in Cuba anymore, a video recorded in Manzanillo, Granma, once again showed how far the level of decadence in the country has reached. Shared on social networks, the recording captured the moment whenThey transport a body inside a van that is usually used to carry food.
In mid-April, a sad scene showed the difficulties caused to mourners by the lack of hearses to transport the dead. A short video shared via Twitter showed how a family from San Germán, the head town of the Urbano Noris municipality, had to go through the humiliation of having totransporting your deceased relative to the funeral home in a van without a roof.
In the comments to Montero's publication, an Internet user expanded on the young writer's complaint by revealing that “there was never an ambulance” to transport the elderly woman with a heart attack, who was finally transferred “on a motorcycle.”
“That country is no good for dying anymore,” commented another user who shared a similar experience that occurred with a relative of his who also had to watch over him in the middle of a blackout, after the old man committed suicide.
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