The prestigious Cuban musician Arturo Sandoval denounced the general decadence in Cuba, which he considered an island "sunken in misery and hopelessness."
"Those who support dictatorship and totalitarian regimes, look at these images of Havana, Cuba, our beautiful island, plunged into misery and hopelessness," the prominent jazz player published on his Instagram and Facebook channels.
He also shared images from the independent mediaCubanet that they reveallarge piles of garbage accumulated in the Centro Habana municipality.
In these garbage dumps you can usually see people looking for something to eat, and although it may seem incomprehensible, they are already part of the urban landscape of the municipality.
Converted into a ruin and giant garbage dump, the most densely populated municipality in Cuba sees time pass without resolving the problems that afflict its inhabitants, whether from the collapse of homes to the lack of drinking water, or the proliferation of garbage dumps. and rubbish dumps in its corners.
Last year the firm DatoWorld, a renowned international electoral observatory, reported that Cuba was the poorest country in Latin America.
The country has 72% ofpoverty rate and that alarming number places it at the forefront of the countries in the Latin American region, that organization reported on Twitter.
Arturo Sandoval He is a renowned and renowned Cuban jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born on November 6, 1949 in Artemisa, Havana, Cuba.
Graduated from the National School of Art, he was part of the Cuban Modern Music Orchestra and in 1974 he was one of the first members, along with saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, of the famous Cuban jazz orchestra Irakere, founded and directed by the pianist and composer Chucho. Valdes. With irakere, Sandoval achieved great worldwide success.
Sandoval is very loved and influential within the Cuban community in Florida, where he has a jazz club. The musician has not been able to return to Cuba for 31 years.
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