Yailis Vilmara García, a 17-year-old Cuban teenager and mother of a barely five-month-old baby, has been threatened by authorities in Old Havana with being evicted from a place where she began living with her daughter out of necessity, according to what she told know the independent media DNA citing the direct testimony of the affected person.
Although five other families also live in the premises - including other children of different ages - The teenager has received a warning letter from the head of the Sector and also from a social worker because in her case, being a minor, they assure that she cannot spend the night with her daughter in the premises., which has construction problems.
However, despite being threatened with imminent eviction and the imposition of a fine of 7,000 pesos, the authorities do not offer Yailis an alternative or a solution, they only force her to leave.
The teenager has a delicate family context because she claims that her mother threw her and her sister out of her house.
She later had relations with a young man. She says that she found out that she was pregnant at 18.5 weeks and that her mother "wanted to force her belly out," even putting her life at risk, as she stated in statements to the aforementioned independent media.
Yailis lived for a time at her partner's house, but she says that the conditions there are even worse because more than eight people live in a small place that also has serious construction problems, as she claims that "the bathroom floor is in the air." .
Even though they are now separated, she says that the baby's father helps her financially as much as he can.
Yailis Vilmadra García explained how after even sleeping in some parks with her daughter, she arrived at the place where she is now - located on Obrapía Street n. 216 between Villegas and Bernaza- and where to throw it from,
The young woman, who does not receive a checkbook or any other financial aid, She begs not to be evicted from the premises she shares with other families, since she has nowhere to go.
In the midst of the omnipresent housing crisis in Cuba, in recent years the number of Cubans who mainly occupy state premises has skyrocketed due to the poor situation of their housing. In several of these cases, occupations end in evictions.
In December, a Cuban couple reported on social networks that Their one-month-old baby's leg was broken while they were being evicted of an empty office that they occupied in the main municipality of Santiago de Cuba because their home was in poor condition.
In March of this year, a video showed the moment when the police tried arrest a mother who refused to leave a home she had occupied with her children in the Bahía district, in the Habana del Este municipality.
In that case, to stop the authorities and prevent the eviction, the woman even smeared herself with petroleum, apparently to imply that she was capable of setting herself on fire before leaving the property, which apparently had been closed for more than five years. years.
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