In the midst of the crime boom in Cuba that has been unleashed for months, the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) assures that in a neighborhood of Havana crimes "practically do not occur", after an alleged experiment.
In a meeting with deputies to Parliament, Minister Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas referred to the confrontation with crime in the La Rampa popular council, in the Plaza de la Revolución municipality.
According to Álvarez Casas, the experience - of which he did not give details - was such that all the factors of different community organizations were involved, and currently there is a work environment, crimes practically do not occur and if they do happen, the perpetrators are discovered. authors with great immediacy.
"From that experience, we identified a popular council in each of the municipalities of the capital, and we extended it to other places in the country, such as Pinar del Río, Matanzas, Las Tunas, Artemisa," explained the Division General, quoted byRadio Rebelde.
For his part, First Colonel Eddy Sierra Arias, Chief of Police, pointed out that measures have been adopted to strengthen prevention and confrontation, especially in municipalities and popular councils, and in other scenarios that register a greater number of crimes and concentration of criminals.
The statements of both managers occur a few days after ayoung man was assaulted in Havana and left lying in the street, without strength to get up from the floor, so he required help from neighbors.
"The robberies continue in Cuba. This boy was assaulted and brutally beaten. They left him lying in the street this morning in Havana. They stole his wallet and phone," explained a witness on the Facebook profile Libre del Comunismo.
In a published video you can see the moment in which the injured young man receives assistance from the people who picked him up from the street and dragged him to a safe place on the sidewalk. During the entire time the recording lasted, neither the police nor any ambulance arrived to help him.
At the same time that crimes increase in Cuba, amid the inaction and inefficiency of the law enforcement forces, and the population feels increasingly insecure, the government is developing a campaign in the press and on the networks to clean up the image of the Police and show false tranquility in the streets.
In June, MININT officials affirmed that there is no impunity for crimes, and denied the veracity of alleged acts spread on the networks, such as armed assaults on buses and hospitals, as well as assaults and kidnapping of minors.
Colonel Hugo Morales, head of the Police patrol brigade, said that there are people who unscrupulously publish unverified information and generate panic, which he linked to an alleged "media war" that is being waged against Cuba from abroad.
For his part, Colonel Manuel Valdés, head of the confrontation body of the Technical Directorate of Investigations (DTI), expressed that all crimes that are reported are investigated, and that in the majorityThose responsible are arrested within 48 hours.
According to the officer, more than 90 percent of firearm crimes are solved, as well as 98 percent of those that result in the death of a person.
These statements are in line with an editorial in the newspaper Granma, the official organ of the Communist Party, which accused the United States and the independent press ofexaggerate the issue of crime and violence in the country.
According to the text, independent media are full of "dozens of daily lies or magnification of criminal acts, wrapped in grotesque red chronicle to offer the world and the millions of network users a destructive image of our society."
He also assured that the US government, in its attempt to subvert the internal order in Cuba, fabricates false news and distorts and manipulates facts to denigrate "revolutionary conquests" such as citizen security.
"There is no passivity or impunity," the article said.
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