Former Isla de Cuba hotel converted into a landfill and public urinal

The Cuban tweeter known as Chimney Sweeper denounced through a video the state of abandonment in which the old Isla de Cuba hotel is located, inaugurated in 1888 and currently converted into a landfill and public urinal.

"I invite you to the Hotel Isla de #Cuba, this is a small glimpse of how the entire country is. Continuity of misery in the dictatorship," he stated in the post.

The Internet user assured that he "got into shit" to showthe reality of the once beautiful building, on Máximo Gómez (Monte) street between Aponte and Cienfuegos, Central Havana, and which today is completely destroyed.

In the material you can see the building protected by a security fence and inside completely full of garbage. In a corner, among the ruins, a man is seen urinating.

The situation is not exclusive to this building. In Cuba other beautifulbuildings of architectural value have suffered the same fate, as is the case of a building in Centro Habana that collapsed in front of the Malecón and has become a garbage dump, the result of institutional apathy and social indiscipline.

"It's Havana, Cuba, I haven't gone to Ukraine," this same user wrote on Twitter last September.

The regime seems to have renounced these buildings of heritage value. As these buildings fall, they rise in Havanaluxurious hotels.

An example is the abandonment of theater venues such as the Bertold Bretch, the Amadeo Roldán and the Casona de Línea, whose destruction occurs at the same time that hotels for tourism are inaugurated.

Recently, Cubans reacted with indignation online to the progress of construction on the new hotel being built on the block previously occupied by thePayret cinema and Kid Chocolate room in Old Havana.

"They loaded the #CinePAYRET with sign and everything, literally," user Erwin Powell commented on Twitter, along with a very significant image that shows the moment when a crane removed the sign with the name of the emblematic Havana cinema.

For the writer and activist Ariel Maceo Telléz, "the dictatorship finished destroying the Payret cinema, one of the oldest cinemas in the country and in all of America. A cinema that is a symbol of Havana, but we already know that the socialists do not care. They like authentic symbols, that's why they take it upon themselves to destroy them, to be able to impose themselves," he said.